funny exchange with a friend

@dawnald (85137)
Shingle Springs, California
July 29, 2009 6:48pm CST
I sent a friend a really nice powerpoint that I had gotten with pictures of St. Petersburg, Russia. She replied back that she had been there in 1957 when it was still Leningrad and how dare they change the name, it was confusing. I replied back that that WAS rude and that I still called Istanbul Constantinople. Her reply was, "Constantinople??? I thought it was called Byzantium." My reply, "and I thought I was old." Hers? "Touche." Had any funny exchanges with friends today? Or did everybody go to the rodeo and forget to invite me?
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ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
30 Jul 09
well, you could tell her that they changed it from St Petersburg to Leningrad so they were just changing it BACK to its original name - heck, it was called Stalingrad for a while - what name is the "real" one?
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ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
30 Jul 09
true, that's what I get for responding when exhausted...
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TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
30 Jul 09
that happens to me in the morning, so if you ever get an incoherent response, remember Dawn's not a morning person!
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TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
30 Jul 09
Naw, it was St. Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad and then St. Petersburg again. Stalingrad was another city. But yeah I could have told her that. It wouldn't have been as funny though!
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cynthiann
@cynthiann (18612)
• Jamaica
30 Jul 09
The rodeo was boring. I knew that you would not like it.
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TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
30 Jul 09
It was probably hot too!
TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
31 Jul 09
Can we go snorkeling instead?
cynthiann
@cynthiann (18612)
• Jamaica
31 Jul 09
With lots of dust and not an ocean in sight!
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Heather Echola
@GardenGerty (169448)
• United States
30 Jul 09
Rodeo?What Rodeo? Oh, yeah, that one. Actually that exchange sounds a lot like the kinds of things my son and I would do. Our whole family would, if the truth were known. To quote my ninth grade Ancient History teacher, "Everything Charlemagne did was 'Frankly' immitation." Of course only two of us got the pun, and we earned A's for the day. I like that kind of banter.
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TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
30 Jul 09
hehehe
lilybug
@lilybug (21107)
• United States
30 Jul 09
It is nice that you have a friend that you can joke with like that. I don't really have any close friends to joke with like that. I did not get an invite to the rodeo either if that is where everyone is today.
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TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
30 Jul 09
She's actually my parent's friend but we keep in touch. Great sense of humor!!!
ANTIQUELADY
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
30 Jul 09
Don't feel bad i didn't get invited either. It's good to have friends like that u can tease with. I have talked to friends today but i'm in such a funky mood wasn;t much bantering going on. i'd rather have nabtering.
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TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
30 Jul 09
nabtering? what's that like? lol
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ANTIQUELADY
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
30 Jul 09
I haven't the slighest idea what the he11 I MEANT, TOLD u i was having a bad day. I think it was bantering juct can't spell, lol.Can't ever tell nabtering might be fun.
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ANTIQUELADY
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
30 Jul 09
p.s. not nice to make fun of old women.
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tamarafireheart
@tamarafireheart (15384)
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30 Jul 09
Hi dawnald, I don't understand why they have change the names of the place, "fany some Turkey?" Tamara
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TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
30 Jul 09
can I gobble it down? :-)
snowy
@snowy22315 (208861)
• United States
30 Jul 09
We did actually, I was calling Coke to report a flat coke product and my boyfriend said yeah while your at it ask them about this pepsi. I of course pepsi is made by pepsi cola, so I thought it was pretty funny. We exchange quips quite a bit thourout the day. It amuses us.
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TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
30 Jul 09
No point telling them about the Pepsi. There's no fixing that stuff.