Back in the days of gainful employment I would communicate with people all over the country from an office in Texas. At one point we were working in an area where timing of an operation was critical.

The California operators asked us to stop using the term 'Fixin' to' as it was confusing them. We told them it mean 'soon, very soon, as in: on the verge of doing so' but they still felt weird about using the term.

So we changed to tenths of a minute and everything was OK.

Skring. :D

it always killed me when my Wife called the robots on Dr. Who: "Darleks" - it isnt spelled with an "r" in the credits, I checked :)

(that and the "stuccor" in Pirates of Penzance, when Fredrick says: "The stuccor on your castle walls is barely dry")

:) :) :)

-John

Lizzie Borden had an axe
She gave her mother fourty whacks
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father Fourty One.