Hey Greebe...where are ya?

[SCompRacer]

Ask him what kind of "caps" he is using for lures.

[Joel]

It's basically a house built with two separate living areas.

Joel

[Pneumatic]

A duplex is like two houses under one roof. They look like one house from the front, with two front doors. It's just split right down the middle. It's kind of funny because people actually buy them, but they only own half of the house. When they repaint of put on a new roof, sometimes they can't get the other person to pitch in. What ends up happening is that one half of the house has new paint and a new roof, and the other half of the house looks like it is abandoned. Strange.

[az]

'Tis cheaper

AZ

[Jammrock]

Ant,

A duplex is commonly called a 'town house', too. There is an evolution to living in the US. You start in an apartment, a.k.a. a flat. Once you get a real job and can't handle the neighbors, you move to a duplex/town house. A duplex is basically what the others described. In Denmark they are called raekkehus. You take a big house look-a-like building and split it up into smaller houses. You get most of the privacy of a house at half the cost.

Once you've saved up enough, you leave the duplex and move to the burbs (suburbs). In the burbs you get your 3 bedroom house for your 2.4 kids, with a 2 car garage for your 1.6 cars, on a .5 acre lot with a white picket fence and 3.2 pets.

Jammrock

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[Electric Amish]

What, he's too good for dial-up??

amish

[Ant]

Ah town house, now I understand

[Jammrock]

Electric Amish,

Once you've tasted the good life with high speed internet...there is no going back. I have used dial up from home 2-3 times since I lost high speed. I surf at work during downtime, or I don't surf at all.

Jammrock

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[Joel]

Greebe is use to cable modem so this is a downgrade for him. 'Townhomes' usually have more than two units put together. A duplex only has two. But what you call them just may depend on where you are from.

Does anyone know what I mean when I refer to a 'shotgun' house?

Joel

[Jorden]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Joel:
He says he's been doing a little bit of fishing.</font>

Aahhh, how they fall without an internet connection
I didn't have a connection due to a phone-outage all weekend, and I found myself watching the WC Snooker And liking it!!

Joel, can't you ask him to build his own (satellite) connection, next time you talk to him?

Jord.

[Kruzin]

IIRC, a shotgun house is a house that you can open the front and the back door, and have a straight shot through the house (you can look in the ft door, and see out the back door)

[Liquid Snake]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Jammrock:
[B]your 2.4 kids, with a 2 car garage for your 1.6 cars, on a .5 acre lot with a white picket fence and 3.2 pets.[B]</font>

2.4 kids, 1.6 cars, 3.2 pets??

[KvHagedorn]

Is a shotgun house anything like a shotgun shack?

what band sang:

"You may find yourself.. living in a shotgun shack.."?

[Kruzin]

Talking Heads-
Once in a Lifetime.


Same as it ever was.


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[Jake]

Ant,

Isn't the word "Flat" used to refer to both appartments and town houses in the UK?

I lived in London for a while and saw LOTS of houses like the "twin-houses" described here. "Tvillingehus" in Danish, Jammer! "Rækkehus" is like the English flats, with seemingly endless rows of connected houses.

Talking about being stuck with dail-up, We (me and my fiancee) just moved to a new appartment in Esbjerg, and it will take 4-6 weeks for my ISP to set me up on DSL again. SUCKS BIGTIME! Right now I'm using my ol' trusty (read crappy) 33.6 modem. Damn it to hell! (Sorry, been playing Jagged Alliance 2 TOO much lately).

Cheers,

Jake