Actually, here in Michigan we do know what a pasty is. They're traditional in the Upper Penninsula (UP) where the copper mines were. They were what the miners (many of whom were originally Cornish) took for lunches, so they're considered a Yooper (UPer) tradition.

There's even a pasty shop in the small town I live in, founded by some folks who moved here from up north.

Of course, a friend of mine from Maine once toured the UP, and was quite intrigued and appalled that every little mom and pop store there seemed to have a sign advertising that they sold pasties. Mainly because she was envisioning these:
[www.twirlygirl.net]

Rather than these:
[kenanderson.net]

That has gone instantly into top spot in my US/UK English confusion list.



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Oh my, just visited the twirlygirl site. I *wondered* about the site name and now I know.

TurboTassel construction (tm) indeed !

twirlygirl site? the mind boggles....

I'm guessing it's a link I shouldn't click on whilst at work? :-)

Yup - that'd be the one.



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Go on, I dare you.

Adult Content Filtered - bah now I'm intrigued

I'll give you a hint...in the first pasties website, it's pronounced with a long A. In the second one the A is short.



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--Ross Smith

paastie .... paaaaaastie ..... nope - doesn't suggest anything rude to me. Hang on. <looks at twirlygirl site> Good Lord. Well, I never knew they were called that. Brave vibrations each way free, eh?



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Anybody know what they might call them in Cornwall.

Apart from 'the devils work'.



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Hmm. Oddly the twirlygirl site was not blocked by our web filter.

But the Empire film magazine site is.

I no understand computers.

Sings:
Good, good good; good vibrations.

That song features one of my all time favourite lyrics:

"I don't know where, but I'll take her there."

The 60's, eh ?

Is that legal

(and is this joke predictable?)



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Some web search engines won't let you search for Penistone. Don't know why; it seems to be quite a nice place.

That one won't be turning up as a villain in Wyoming, then?

Penistone Netheredge and his evil accomplice Scunthorpe Wicker.



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permission to regurgitate a gag from Humphrey Littleton?

Nottingham was originally Snothingham, but the Normans had problems pronouncing S at the start of words, and th in the middle. Fortunately, they never built a castle in Scunthorpe, and didn't spend much time there.



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Well, at least here the two words are pronounced differently. The stick on version are pasties (paste-eez) while the pies are pasties (past-eez).

But a web search gives both types, as does the dictionary:
[dictionary.reference.com]

I believe the tassels are optional.

<wonders if anybody does novelty ones that you can yank to get a doorbell sound>



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<surely some sort of hooter would be more in keeping?>



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if you've got your fforum set up to email replies to posts, those last two came across blank.

Probably just as well.

:-)

I'm fairly sure that if you tugged a gal's tassles, you'd probably get a slap.