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Thunderbird Club

#202,762
bobyoung53 said:
I like Mexico, would like to live there actually. The people are really nice and relaxed......well most of them.
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My parents had a place in Mazatlan for 30 years. I have to agree.
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bobyoung53 said:
Same with English, try understanding someone from deep Scotland or even Ireland sometime. I don't even follow certain British speakers especially politicians unless I really concentrate. Or being a yankee from Mass I sometimes don't always understand people from the deep south although it's more the accent than anything else.
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Western North Carolina used to be completely incomprehensible to anybody who hadn't spent time there. Get up far enough into the hills, and you may still find some pockets of that dialect. Radio and television are wiping out regional accents.
 
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lildrgn said:
If you are up for it, come see our last show at the Sunset this Saturday. I will be debuting the Tbird, but will also play the bass that got me there, my L1K.

And thank you!
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If I can make it, that would be great. I haven't been out to a show for a very long time, and it's been even longer since I was at a show where I wasn't on stage.
 
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PhR75 said:
Could it be from the Rossington-Collins Band era? 1975 would definitely not make it as a gift from Cliff as Cliff was not in AC/DC then (but in Bandit IIRC) and the Cliff photo is from 1978.

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Possibly, but from the hair and looks I'd lean toward mid 70s. Both times I saw RCB he played a white Thunderbird most of the time and I don't recall seeing a NR like that. But obviously he did at some point.
 
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dagrev said:
Possibly, but from the hair and looks I'd lean toward mid 70s. Both times I saw RCB he played a white Thunderbird most of the time and I don't recall seeing a NR like that. But obviously he did at some point.
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You're right, he did play that bass in Oakland Coliseum 1977 (the pic you posted is most likely from there).
So the plot thickens.
 
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dagrev said:
I don't know Spanish but what I learned from Fred Sanford. But I know a number of people who do and Spanish is not the same everywhere. A guy visiting from Spain had a hard time figuring out Mexican spanish. Said it was almost like a different language. True or not, I have no clue. Another friend from Cuba said that Spanish is even different on one end of the island than the other. Oddly enough Burma has about 140 dialects, most of which can't be understood by others. Many understand "Burmese," but not all. Our church has helped several families from Burma come to the states and helped many more adjust to the States, and for the longest time we couldn't figure out why many of them never interacted with each other. We thought it was a tribal thing where they just didn't like each other, There is some of that, but more often than not they were from different tribes and just couldn't communicate well. How such a "small" place could have so many languages and dialects is astounding.
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Languages drift. Isolated populations will drift many different directions. As an example, Brazilian Portuguese is considered a separate language from Portuguese. Even non-isolated populations may have different drifts.

I am originally from the London (England) area. I have cousins from Birmingham (England, although I would suspect Alabama would be much the same) I have trouble understanding and other cousins from Cornwall (other end of the country) who are equally but differently, difficult to understand. I don't know if they can understand each other. Even the US, the great melting pot, has a variety of accents across the country with some almost different languages.

English became a dominant language because the English Empire covered 25% of the world. Now all those former colonies speak English with their own local dialects, some easier to understand, and others more difficult.
 
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