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Offline AaronGGT

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« Reply #30 on: May 29, 2005, 06:40:21 AM »
Being 'knocked up' normally means you are in the pudding club, i.e. pregnant, not tired. Tired is knackered. The only other use I've heard of being knocked up is when someone knocks on your door to wake you up.
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« Reply #31 on: May 29, 2005, 08:41:22 AM »
Yeah sorry Swoop been awhile since I used a lot of those and your 100% right on pillock and yes "row" is a northern expression mainly also it's got 2 variations to it   1/ having a row  =arguement   2/ making a row  =a noise.
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« Reply #32 on: May 29, 2005, 08:48:03 AM »
u  have to remember xbrit left the UK before the America did!! He's a bit long in the tooth  the  old muppet  :rofl
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« Reply #33 on: May 29, 2005, 02:34:37 PM »
pillock = idiot.
cream crackered= knackered= tired.. or in terms of an object broken beyond repair..
shagged,, shagged out= very tired
old dear= mother
stubbie= bottle of beer... prob originated from austrailia
studmuffin= cigarette
fanny= womens private parts
rubber= a tool for rubbing out pencil marks
spunk= mans love jucie
crown jewels= mans private parts
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« Reply #34 on: May 29, 2005, 03:50:54 PM »
I worked with a bunch of English and Irish folks several years ago.  They thought it was funny as hell when they asked if I was gonna "get pissed" after work, and I said "uh......no, I'm happy when work is over."  Apparently, "pissed" means drunk, and "it's always bloody pissing" means it rains a lot.  They (and me along with them) ended up getting pissed almost every night after work, and they were a hell of a lot of fun to be around. :D :D
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« Reply #35 on: May 29, 2005, 05:28:00 PM »
Selector -
Stubbie - Yes from Australia, originally a 'Darwin Stubby' which I believe is the biggest bottle of beer there.
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« Reply #36 on: May 29, 2005, 06:32:38 PM »
The Brits and Southerners have a lot in common, can't hardly understand either one of them.  :D
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« Reply #37 on: May 29, 2005, 11:06:06 PM »
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Never heard of making a row before, sounds suspiciously northern to me.

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My Grandmother was from Caton, My mother originally from Barrow. So I'm not sure how North you would consider Caton; but "making a row" was a common expression from her mouth.
My wife is from Maryland and we live in the Midwest. The dialect is different. She says "mackatam" (sp?) for blacktop, and grinny for chipmunk. Even the USA is separated by a common language.
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« Reply #38 on: May 29, 2005, 11:10:55 PM »
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Originally posted by AaronGGT
Being 'knocked up' normally means you are in the pudding club, i.e. pregnant, not tired. Tired is knackered. The only other use I've heard of being knocked up is when someone knocks on your door to wake you up.


Yes you are correct. My bad. It was in the context of being awakened in the moring. "Knock me up at 7 am". In the States I know only one use of the expression, that is being pregnant. Being "knocked up" has two totally different uses in the 2 languages.
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« Reply #39 on: May 29, 2005, 11:46:08 PM »
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dont know what you may call them... pants i guess


Guybrush Threepwood: "Pants... What pants?"
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« Reply #40 on: May 29, 2005, 11:50:43 PM »
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I have never heard of the that term Flossy.......but then again I grew up in Arizona, so I might have missed out. :)


Arizonans unite! :P

Grew up there m'self. (Phx Valley area)
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« Reply #41 on: May 30, 2005, 12:11:32 AM »
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Guybrush Threepwood: "Pants... What pants?"




YES...Monkey Island ruled....glad to see someone else played it =)
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« Reply #42 on: May 30, 2005, 12:16:11 AM »
MI2 had the funniest ending ever lol
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« Reply #43 on: May 30, 2005, 06:49:05 AM »
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My mother originally from Barrow.
If you mean Barrow in Furness, I live about 10 miles away from it, in Ulverston!   It is in the North West of England, just south of the English Lake District.  Caton is just across the bay (Morecambe Bay) near Lancaster.  :)
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« Reply #44 on: May 30, 2005, 07:30:05 AM »
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I sir, am southern as well.  I reside in the Great State of North Carolina.


damn northern yankee!

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 The notion of being called "Yankee" is absurd as I like my skies tarheel blue and my tea the same way I like my women...SWEET.


Us sutherners like our women like we like our coffee, strong and black:p
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