Hampstead
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Posted: 12/15/2006 03:30 am
Remember, today is the last boiling day for sprouts for Christmas.
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excell
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Posted: 12/15/2006 04:35 am
What the?
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SportsGuy
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Posted: 12/15/2006 04:38 am
Ah, the English - so eccentric...
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Hampstead
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Posted: 12/15/2006 05:41 am
I think you may need to be British to get the joke.
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SportsGuy
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Posted: 12/15/2006 06:43 am
I think you need to be British to use the word Mum... 
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excell
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Posted: 12/15/2006 07:38 am
For the life of me I cannot connect Brussels and Christmas with my Mum...even though I come from great stock.
Hampstead, you need to spell out this one or else it is going to be collated with spinach, swedes and turnips by category.
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Hampstead
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Posted: 12/15/2006 08:07 am
Not necessarily British, just an exponent of the Queens English 
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excell
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Posted: 12/15/2006 08:29 am
I can just smell it.
Christmas cheers to all!
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excell
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Posted: 12/15/2006 08:32 am
Directory > Words > Dictionary
ex·po·nent (ĭk-spō'nənt, ĕk'spō'nənt) pronunciation
n.
1. One that expounds or interprets.
2. One that speaks for, represents, or advocates: Our senator is an exponent of free trade.
3. (Abbr. exp) Mathematics. A number or symbol, as 3 in (x + y)3, placed to the right of and above another number, symbol, or expression, denoting the power to which that number, symbol, or expression is to be raised. Also called power.
adj.
Expository; explanatory.
[Latin expōnēns, expōnent-, present participle of expōnere, to expound. See expound.]
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Hampstead
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Posted: 12/15/2006 08:40 am
You need to use an English dictionary:
exponent noun 1 someone able to perform some art or activity, especially skilfully.
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excell
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Posted: 12/15/2006 08:45 am
it reads the same in meaning to me, my friend 
One that knows. bottom line.
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Hampstead
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Posted: 12/15/2006 09:15 am
Anyway enough of this.....Must get my sprouts on.
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excell
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Posted: 12/15/2006 09:16 am
LOL -> wut u dag!
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SportsGuy
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Posted: 12/15/2006 10:17 am
someone able to perform some art or activity, especially skilfully.
...uhmm, wouldn't Hammy be the opposite of htis since none of us can understand him? Clearly not skilled in the englishes...
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Hampstead
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Posted: 12/16/2006 01:14 am
I'm more skilleder than what you think.
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