A real Kiwi eats roots and leaves.

Denise

Well, sweetie, if you suspect that it's tildeish, you're more than halfway there already!

Specifically, it's Antipodean tildeishness.

I can tell Alatar that I'm rooting for her to get a good job, and that's fine. ("Go team, go team, rah-rah-rah!")

However, if I tell Dlanod that I'm rooting for him to get a good job, he's going to wonder how I'm going to manage to sleep his way to the top.... (This holds true for New Zealanders as well as Australians.)

Now, that's the verb "to root."

Care to take a guess as to what the noun "root" means?

Right..... Same finely-crafted area, slightly higher elevation....

Are you cranberry red yet?

Denise, who also tested out as a fwuffy bunny.....

In the last version of your joke that I heard, "shoots" was a lot more tildish.

*gets out dictionary (the big one fro bana-conversing)*

unfair? unjust? Woosh!

The second word was a lont more tildeish and the first wasn't?

Twas ackshually, bunt you wern't tlacking about what the kiwi was eating...mmm...

i'm expraining tildy interpretations to a wizard? oy
Nah, just big words. (and I still don't nunderstand)

Knot the kiwi, which is lal tildy nazwaz - the panda...
But my point was the panda is tildy too. Hence me piggy-backing Denise's thread.

Well, if the panda was eating food and then switched to being tildy, that would be ruther slefish and unfair, nesupasu?
Why? Does this mean I can't play footsie when you buy me dinner in Edinburgh?

now i'm writting panda pron?
Eru knows they need it!

I suspect you're plazing wit me now, but to be 100% clear, I meant that it would be ruther unsporting of the panda to eat in the non-tildy sense and shoot in the tildy sense.
*blink* *reread* *blink* whoosh!

It's knot the tildes that are throwing me, but why you consider it 'unfair'.

I think the word you were looking for is 'selfish' then. Or 'male' ;)

You said "slefish and unfair". It was lal the 'unfair' 'unsporting' 'inequitable' that was confuzzling me.

Or 'male' ;)
Hrm, now, that's a ruther broad brush.
Don't be putting us lal in one bin, hrm?
Aww, don't worry Bana. When I said male I boviously didn't mean you ;)

Hmm, that's a bit of an old one fro me. I could tell you Alamum's sewage worker joke, but being a hobbit you're prolly eating.

A sewage worker is in ther sweres with his appretice an starts boasting hw he can tell who every turd belongs to.

"That one" he says, "belongs to the butcher."
"How can you tell?" asks the apprentice.
"It's got bits of swadust in it that have come from the floor of the butcher's shop" the old guy replies.

"And that one", the old sewage worker contuinues, "is from the pet shop owner."
"How do you know?" asks the apprentice.
"it's got bits of birdseed in it from the shop" the old guy replies.

"Oh" said the apprentice, starting to understand, "and what about that one?"
"That's easy" said the old guy, "it's my wife's"
"How can you tell?" asks the apprentice.
"It's got my sandwiches tied to it"

... acos he flushed them?
she (the wife), yis. impyling she send him his lunch that way every day

or did i miss the punchline?
Possibly you're just knot used to jokes like this

<Tralala> "it's got my sandwiches tied to it"
<Gondhir> That's disgusting!
* Denise wonders about alamum sometimes....
<Tralala> *giggle*
* El_Conde_Penguino unsure whetehr "disgusting" or "VERY diusgsuitng" ... ;-)
<Tralala> ah, the woman who raised me
* Pimeestara doesn't get it...
<Gondhir> 'Splains a lot...
* Tralala goes copy it into banazir's journal as requested