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Corporatemonkey
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 06:29 am: |
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Harder for others to get in. I looked seriously at Aussieland in the late 90's. I didn't have any serious assets, nor could I afford university as an international. They didn't want me Someday I will be back |
Badlionsfan
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 06:33 am: |
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It seems to me that there is a general decline in daily conversation and interaction between Americans. If one more flipping person LOL's me I am gonna take my gat and git up in der grilz and pop a cap in that azz. } |
Danger_dave
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 06:36 am: |
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Beats me. If you are from the 3rd world, socially inept, 'English challenged' and with the desire to drive a Taxi - yer in. |
Danger_dave
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 06:42 am: |
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You just watch it Mr Lionsfan - I have an distressing lions image in the library. I'm reluctant to use it - I have some sympathy - it's been a long time since Barry Sanders - but me an' slicker is tight ya know. Mud's thicker than football. |
Damnut
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 06:49 am: |
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Damnut
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 06:51 am: |
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Tramp
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 06:59 am: |
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"The "F" in WFO has always, from the start, represented a profanity. This "full" mumbo-jumbo is a later decaffeination. Danger dave- That Dilly and Gaff explanation makes little sense, besides the fact that it's entirely inaccurate. You can has NO cheeseburger, DD.
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Danger_dave
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 07:07 am: |
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>>besides the fact that it's entirely inaccurate. << It's entirely accurate thanks. Mr Dilley the Cricketer: http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/england/content/pl ayer/11893.html There are others. The American Oxford also cites: gaff noun Brit., informal a house, apartment, or other building, esp. as being a person's home : John's new gaff is on McDonald Road. ORIGIN 1930s: of unknown origin. So Thar. |
Tramp
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 07:13 am: |
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It's inaccurate as defining "DILLIGAF". * * * I think we ALL can think of hundreds of Pommie surnames, doesn't mean they apply to DILLIGAF...that's nutty talk. * * Where is Gaff defined as cockney slang? Shouldn't it rhyme with something, ya hamptonwycke? (Message edited by tramp on August 12, 2008) |
Danger_dave
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 07:16 am: |
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Oh - I see - I thought the 'do i look like' part was taken as old hat. |
Tramp
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 07:21 am: |
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The greatest beam of light, in my long winters spent ski coaching in Europe, were Aussies and kiwis coming over from the UK, (usually bartenders on 2-year work visas)for a few weeks of high-energy partying. Down to the person, these bastards really brought the smile level up, entirely The language barrier provided many yuks, with respect to athletic terminology... ....as did visits to discos |
Danger_dave
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 07:24 am: |
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Aussies use a fair bit of rhyme too. If I said: I'm gunna take the trouble and strife to steak and kidney with the billy lids - any Aussie (and I suspect you) would know I was going to Sydney with the Wife and Kids. Evolved from cockney. 'The Gaffer' was the Publican I think - ran the Public House - it evolved to your 'ouse was yer gaff and you was the gaffer in yer own 'ouse. I thought Mr Dilley's Gaff was a rather clever connotation. |
Tramp
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 07:26 am: |
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Clever, but entirely contrived, after the fact, and, therefor, inaccurate. I still don't see the etymological genesis of gaff. |
Danger_dave
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 07:29 am: |
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The oxford is 'origin unknown'. |
Tramp
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 07:31 am: |
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So is it cockeny slang? I was under the impression (and, PLEASE correct me if i'm wrong, I've never left gatwick or heathrow, en route to the continent) that cockney slang is based on rhyming works, like, say "dog and bone" for "Phone", or 9as in Austin Powers) "How's your father" for "lather"...? |
Danger_dave
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 08:38 am: |
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Dunno - my Londonolexiconology isn't that good. The ability to make up words seems intact. |
Slaughter
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 09:59 am: |
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Rymenslang (or rhymenslang) v. cockney Tilsburys used to indicate socks/stockings. Rhymes with Tilsbury Docks - docks rhymes with socks. Tilsburys are worn under boots. Cockney-speke can use the term "socks" to describe footwear or fighting. |
Jettdawg
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 10:41 am: |
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"gonna take my gat and git up in der grilz and pop a cap in that azz" I get "grillz" and "pop a cap", but where does "gat" come from? |
Damnut
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 10:46 am: |
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Gat= slang fer gun |
Tramp
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 11:12 am: |
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??!?!?!?! "gat" comes from OLD, prohibition-era lexicon... just check out some James Cagney Edward G. Robinson flix!!!! Came from "gattling Gun", as mobsters first began calling their Thompsons, and it soon spread to handguns, as well. |
Slaughter
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 11:24 am: |
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"GAT" is the sound of a cat coughing up a hairball. |
Cityxslicker
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 12:44 pm: |
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Gat, for illegal, high capacity, cheap gun. As for being from the Gattling family, I have only seen one guy ever hand carry one of those. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc2GME6M7zM GE Mini Gun when you absolutely positively have to level everything in sight, accept no substitutes. |
Tramp
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 04:37 pm: |
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Ever fire a mini (on or off a strut)? I have . It's swell. |
Spiderman
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 05:01 pm: |
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Cityxslicker
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 05:16 pm: |
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All the time I did in the military, packing a piece and shooting lead down range was all training and tactics, nothing ever live fire. On the upside, nobody was shooting back either. They just are more comfortable having linguists locked up in a bunker somewhere, with a set of headphones and pot of coffee. |
Buellinachinashop
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 05:19 pm: |
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"They just are more comfortable having linguists locked up in a bunker somewhere, with a set of headphones and pot of coffee." Dude, are you Grimes from Blackhawk Down? |
Krassh
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 05:26 pm: |
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"GAT" is the sound of a cat coughing up a hairball. Actually ACK! is a cat coughing up a hairball, so says Bill the Cat.
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Krassh
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 05:26 pm: |
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Tramp
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 05:30 pm: |
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Linguist win battles, topple despotic regimes and were responsible for the fall of European communism. Weren't many firefights on the K1 |
Danger_dave
| Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 06:33 pm: |
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I reckon what looks good on a cat, is a Doberman. |
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