RE: FRIDAY FUN: Snow day!

["James Barrow" <vrfour -at- verizon -dot- net>]

> John Garison wrote:
>
>A number of years ago I was working in New Zealand and interviewing one of
>the managing partners of my company for some reason or other. He was
>telling me about a previous company and one of the products they had
>developed. He said at one point "We released it, and it went like a bomb.'
>Thinking it had 'bombed' I expressed my sympathy and allowed as I had had
>some experience with products like that too.
>
>He said - "Naaow (Kiwi-speak for No), it bloody exploded on the market!"
>
>As Winston Churchill opined about the US and its [proper] English-speaking
>cousins - "Two countries separated by a common language."

Too funny.  In Los Angeles, in that same situation, he would have used #3:

<http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blow+up>

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