Anyone know why Americans call petrol 'gas'?
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Its short for gasoline...of course that STILL doesnt explain why they called it that... Americans are just wierd, everyone knows that 
TinMan666
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either it's cos "gas" only has one syllable, so it's easier to grunt.
or possibly it's just so they can say "gas-o-leeeeeeeeeen" in that cool redneck drawl. You can't really say "petrol" like that.
or possibly it's just so they can say "gas-o-leeeeeeeeeen" in that cool redneck drawl. You can't really say "petrol" like that.
Southy
Proud Brisbane Metaller
PETTT-RAWWLL
see ya can just go 2 or 3 hrs west o any major city and they start too talk like that
see ya can just go 2 or 3 hrs west o any major city and they start too talk like that
KoichCPA
Banned
Australians calling Americans weird?...........hmmm.
Do you have an Aussie television program where an American guy goes off chasing Grizzly Bears and Bobcats?
Just because we have a program where this Australian guy goes around chasing deadly poison snakes, and sticking his face in Croc mouths!
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Do you have an Aussie television program where an American guy goes off chasing Grizzly Bears and Bobcats?
Just because we have a program where this Australian guy goes around chasing deadly poison snakes, and sticking his face in Croc mouths!
we love you guys!
Happy Thanksgiving
You dont want to be making fun of our crocodile hunter, he is a national hero here! Top class television
phlogiston
Bejabbers!
But we do have a show where American kids run around and play with a big dopey purple dinosaur.
And now that's an idea! Maybe Steve should do a guest spot on Barney and see how riled up he can get that great gammy lizard. Then he can jump on him and tie him up and relocate him!
And now that's an idea! Maybe Steve should do a guest spot on Barney and see how riled up he can get that great gammy lizard. Then he can jump on him and tie him up and relocate him!
Relocate? No. EXTERMINATE! Though the image of him rolling around in the mud with barney the purple dinosaur is almost TOO funny.
Lord Tim
That guy from LORD
I can see it now...
Steve: "Awrite, there he is... I'm gunna sneak up behind him, grab him and stick my thumb up his buthole! Yearrr, that'll really piss 'im orfff!"
Barney: "(sings) I love you, you love m- EEEEEK!
"Steve: "Crikey, that was grouse!"
HAHAHAHA!
I can't imagine it being too hard to chase a Bobcat -- all you'd have to do was turn off the ignition and it would be stranded.
Goreripper
Metal as fuck
My high school science teacher once told me that the reason it's called gas by our North American cousins is because, even though it's a liquid when you pour it in your tank, it becomes a gas in the engine. Technically, the term "fuel" is more correct than either, although this word would probably suffer somehow due to the Americans' rather interesting disdain for dipthongs.
Goreripper
Metal as fuck
Because they don't know how to spell "arse", which takes me back to the old joke:
"In Australia, a bum is not a fanny, and a fanny is not a bum."
Stevo
Coming soon...
An ass? They're the first to come up with the term 'ass-wipe'.
Or, why do they call the accelerator a 'gas pedal' ??
... there's that gasoline term again.
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