Bill,
How did the European reaction to the Australian laugh and accent differ? In Italy during May 2015, I collected $$ for an Italian woman from a nouveau mafia realtor once he registered my STANFORD LAW SCHOOL baseball cap and my American accent & laugh.
Barry
On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 08:25:37 +1100, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>There’s an American laugh
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>A wordless hilarity-burst
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>anywhere you go in Europe
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>You just know when it starts up
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>the words that follow
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>will not be French
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>or Spanish or Portuguese
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>It hangs
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>in the smitten air
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>welcome
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>as cigar smoke
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>bw
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