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Funny expressions we use......
Katie77:
--- Quote from: David925 on December 10, 2006, 10:12:12 pm ---"We must have hit a skunk that crawled out the ass of another skunk"
(From "Everybody Loves Raymond". While driving in the car, Ray was upset because Robert's feet smelled bad)
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Love it David.....I'm a big fan of Everybody Loves Raymond.....
Kerry:
Here's a couple from Australia:
* She can talk under cement (think Lashawn) :laugh:
* As ugly as a hat full of nuns' cu*ts (definitely not in polite usage) :o
* Bumping uglies (having sex) ;D
* Do I look like someone who gives a f*ck? (used sarcastically, meaning "I'm not interested") 8)
* Flat-out like a lizard drinking (very busy) :)
* Trouser snake (penis) :-*
* Map of Tasmania (vagina) ;)
* Point Percy at the porcelain (urinate - male) :-\
* Technicolour yawn (vomit) :(
* Moon tan (pale complexion) :)
Kerry
Kerry:
--- Quote from: Kerry on December 23, 2006, 07:32:13 am ---Here's a couple from Australia:
* Trouser snake (penis) :-*
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Oops! Erratum - that should be "one-eyed trouser snake"! ;)
And how could I possibly forget one of Australia's most famous colloquialisms - Pom!!! :laugh:
Australians refer to English people as Poms or Pommys. This term is always used with humour and affection, never malice (well, maybe sometimes with malice LOL). During the recent cricket tests between Australia and England, advertisements appeared all over Australia, encouraging Aussies to thrash the "Poms" in the cricket (I saw it on the side of a bus this very morning). A group of expat Brits got together and brought a legal action against the advertisers. They claimed the term was derogatory and racist. Needless to say, they failed. It was thrown out. I guess they simply don't understand that it is a great compliment to be given a derogatory nick-name by an Australian. It means he likes you!!! ;D
All these expressions would be very familiar to our Heath 8)
Kerry
P.S., We DID thrash the Poms in the cricket and I'm sure Heath would have been delighted about that!!! (LOL) :laugh:
saucycobblers:
--- Quote from: Kerry on December 28, 2006, 08:44:57 pm ---We DID thrash the Poms in the cricket and I'm sure Heath would have been delighted about that!!! (LOL) :laugh:
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Hi Kerry. Yep, us Poms sure deserved the thrashing you lot gave us in the cricket :(. We were about as much use as a chocolate teapot on that pitch!
--- Quote from: Kerry on December 23, 2006, 07:32:13 am ---* Technicolour yawn (vomit) :(
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Related to the above, I wonder if you (or any other Aussies on the board) could clear up something for me. I love Aussie cinema and wrote about it for both of my dissertations, and one of the films I wrote about was 'The Adventures of Barry McKenzie' from 1972, starring Barry Crocker as the titular hero. In the film he says that the Australian expression to 'chunder' (vomit) has its origins in the transportation of convicts, when anyone in an upper bunk would warn those below to 'watch under' if he or she was going to be sick. Do you know if this is true? I've looked on the web, but to no avail.
Katie77:
--- Quote from: saucycobblers on December 29, 2006, 02:45:34 pm --- In the film he says that the Australian expression to 'chunder' (vomit) has its origins in the transportation of convicts, when anyone in an upper bunk would warn those below to 'watch under' if he or she was going to be sick. Do you know if this is true? I've looked on the web, but to no avail.
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I had never heard that before, but it makes perfect sense to me as an Aussie.....
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