Legion World Forums LEGION OUTPOST Mission Monitor Board Every 10 Years Forum Four-Ecks (no worries)

Welcome to Four-Ecks, A LegionWorld outpost for members in a more normal, healthy timezone.

Four-Ecks is a multi-level, modified Asteroid orbiting Legionworld prime. Aswell as containing all the regular superhero stuff (meeting Room, Living Quartesr, Pong) there is a 3 level super club, "Hangmans bar and Grill" (oddly enough, a bar AND grill) aswell as a Biodome containing all the major eco-systems of earth, where we throw some pretty kick-arse theme parties.

So come in, kick back and stay awhile. the beers free, the Ladies Scantily Clad and the Homosexuals flaming!

So Joey, does that mean that the female guests must be scantily clad as well? Not that I'm objecting, mind you. Just asking.

Sounds good to me Cali - just don't forget to post the photos.

Looks like a good place you've got here Mr. Bunny. And you say the beer's free?

Looks like I might be able to take some time out of my life to look around here some more.

Yes, the Beer is most definately free. But first you must pass the Vegimite innitiation test. Mwooo-ha-ha-haaa!!!

All right what exactly is vegemite? I've heard that it's some sort of yeast paste, isn't it?

Yeah....the way I figure it is some bright thinker was trying to cook a Stew with vegetables and beer, then got progressively drunker, adding more beer and drinking more beer, then passed out, leaving the stew to stew. In the morning, what was left was a thick black paste, so said bright thinker decided to give it a try...at first was disgusted, then it grew on him.

and that ladies and Germs, is the Vegimite story

Interesting. So what's the initiation test like? Do we rub Vegemite on ourselves and wait for it to grow? Do we have to plaster our walls with it? Use it to make rocket fuel?

Hi KMB, mind if i join in the fun?

I guess most Aussie delicacies would be a curiosity to you folk from the USA, that is why Olivia Newton-John opened up her Koala Blue store so that stuff like Vegemite and other Aussie icons can be sampled and enjoyed by the locals, as it were.

You fine people enjoy a good peanut-butter and jelly sandwich on occasion, right? In Aus, such a combo would be called peanut paste and jam - interesting bit of trivia, what?

What we call a soft drink, you call a "soda"

If KMB or anybody on the other side of the Atlantic has any parallels in food or differences, it might be useful to know in case tourists might want to sample some typical US fare like sauerkraut and beans, tacos, burritos, etc.

I bring it up, coz i am fascinated by the whole food chain in general.

Jelly and Jam are the same thing? They are two distinct products here in Canada? Jam is a fruit compote while jelly appears to be gelatinized juice.

Most Americans do indeed call soft drinks "Soda" (the dominiant term on the east and west coast where TV and movies are made i think), but others call it "Pop" (more in the mid-west, i think) which is the dominant up in Eastern Canada.

In Atlanta everything is "Coke" don't even try to order the other brand. This is the opposite of Quebec Canada where everything is "Pepsi", because for decades Coca-Cola refused to distribute its product labelled in French.

What a nice place, Joey! If I make it back alive from the Monitor's Ship, I will definitely stop back and sample whatever you offer me

I focus on one of your comments, Tamper Lad - whereabouts in the USA is the dessert jelly referred to as "jello"?

Um actually, its still Peanut butter. But Jelly is Jello, Biscuits are our cookies, Sloppy Joes are sweaters, your Football is Grid-Iron, Candy is Lollies...I could go on.

I sit next to an Aussie at work, who explained to me that "Vegemite's for pooftas!"

Whatever that means.

Also mentioned in that Men At Work hit from many a year ago. "She just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich."


In Britain we have an animal product equivalent - Bovril, whose advertising slogan is / was "You'll either love it or hate it."

Personally I hate it. You make a hot drink of it (just add hot water) which tastes like hot watery beef. Which I suppose it is. Yeeeuch!

Or you can have it on toast apparently. Waste of a good bit of toast if you ask me.

Anyway - where's the f**king bar, John (to quote Pink Floyd).

Jello is the brand...its like calling a vacuum cleaner a"Hoover" even though it may be another brand

The bar's to your left....just past the ornamental fountains. Also to your right, near the Foosball tables...oh and right in front of you.

And Ive had Bovril. It made me spew.

Oh yeah...if you come to Australia, dont ever say you "Root for the team" and be perplexed by the raucous laughter.

Aussie slang for homosexual, Numf

Sorry - I meant the phrase, rather than the word.

"Rule #1 - Noooooooo pooftas" etc. etc.

Getting back to the important stuff though - beer.

Surprised you guys know about XXXX - I thought that and Fosters were just fizzy piss that you sold to us Brits, while you kept the good stuff to yourselves. Swan Lite, or whatever.

Yooooouuuuu Pooft-AH! or Puncy...lol

oh no real Australian drinks xxxx or Fosters...its poofter beer *snerk*

How does Vic Bitter taste, KMB?

Why would Europeans in general, and Brits in particular want to import beer. You have wonderful unique beers in each locale.

BTW International English for "American Beer" is "water"

S'funny, I was aboard an Australian Submarine, HMAS Orion, not long ago and the only beer they carried was Foster's.

The aft torpedo tubes were filled with cases of it, as was any and every available nook and canny...

Jello is a fruit flavor geltain dessert here in the states. I am sure Bill Cosby would agree.

Jam/Jelly i feel are the same thing, which is just fruit boiled down with sugar and unfloavored geltain to make a fruit spread.

I put fruit preserves on my peanut butter - same as above but not boiled all the way down. So you still get chunks of fruit in the spread.

Northerns and people in the midwest refer to any softdrink as soda or pop.

Here in the south, all soda is refered to as coke. Not Coke but coke.

So when someone asks you what kind of coke you would like and you ask what they have they can reply "Well we have Coke, Diet Coke, Dr Pepper or Pepsi." We use the uncaptialized coke as a generic term for soda.

but then again only old grandmas living in Maine refer to soda as 'pop'.

The area in Massachusetts where I grew up, we called soda "tonic".

And here in New England, a milk shake made with ice cream is called a Frappe (Faraway Lad can testify as to how good they taste) although i Rhode Island they call them "cabinets".

In different areas of the US, a sandwich on a long thin roll is called a sub, submarine sandwich, hero, grinder, or hoagy.

When I visited a friend in Aberdeen, he asked what he should get for me to eat. When I said "just get some cold cuts" he didn't know what I meant. Cold cuts being just a variety of sliced meats you can get at a deli.