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Yep, it's one of those love/hate relationaships ... ... ... ... we love to hate each other!
Or mind over matter. We don't mind, they don't matter
teddy
The sexual urge of the camel,
Is greater than anyone thinks,
He's been known in the Spring and the Autumn,
To have a good go at the Sphinx,
But the Sphinx's posterior orifice,
Is bunged up with the sands from the Nile,
Which accounts for the gloom of the camel,
And the Sphinx's inscrutable smile.
Not many used to know that
Not quite the exact wording I used to know, [nitpicking] always thought it read "hump of the camel", not gloom [/nitpicking]
Made me smile anyway!
Well FWIW I loved Wales - the scenery, the castles, the singing. What I did find amusing was all the bilingual road-signage, and the fact that in South Wales it has the Welsh printed underneath the English, but in North Wales it's the other way around(no prizes for guessing which part of the country is more protective of their language
). Met some really nice people there (and some eccentric ones too!).
Err, right, something trivial, let me see ...
All I can recount for the moment is something from the inestimable Kenny Everett:
"Did you know that the South American aardvark catches moths ... by leaving it's porch light on?"
Music is made to transform the states of the soul, for an hour or an instant (J. Alain)
yeah, Matt - I loved Wales when I paid my brief visit there ... the Welsh were charming, especially once they figured out I wasn't English but Australian ... (I know my Aussie accent is mild but puhleeeze).
To blow/make a rasberry, has it's origins in Cockney slang, which is quite singular in that it replaces words with non-correlated words which rhyme. For example "have a chat" becomes "chew the fat", "titfer", short for tit-for-tat means hat, and "raspberry tart" rhymes with fart, which is exactly what a raspberry sounds like...
Originally Posted by Soubasse
Reminds me of yet another Blackadder quote:
"Huge gangs of tough sinewy men roam the valleys terrorising people with their close-harmony singing"
(I'm allowed to say this, I have Welsh relatives!!!!)
Ah, the acerbic Edmund! Love it to bits. One can learn much about Europe from Blackadder:
"Don't you worry about my poets Mr. Blackadder, they're just being intellectucal"
"Mrs. Miggins, there's nothing intellectual about walking around Italy in a big shirt trying to get laid."
Or:
"The Teutonic reputation for torture is legendary - their operas last several days"
Thanks for the info on raspberry blowing Buttercup, I didn't know that and I quite like Cockeny Rhyming Slang (I was surprised after many years of hearing people being called "berk" to find out where that one came from!)
Music is made to transform the states of the soul, for an hour or an instant (J. Alain)
The slowworm is actually a type of lizard that has lost its legs through evolution. They can just be seen under the skin.
teddy
Re Cockney rhyming slang, can anybody translate this phrase, it's in the later abbrevialted form where the second word was omitted so e.g. apples and pears meaning stairs would be abbreviated to apples, as in "get up them apples"
Nip down to the lolly on the johnny and fetch us a packet of harries, here's an oxford and bring us the kitchen.
Clues if necessary tomorrow
Cheers MIKE.
How many roads must a man walk down ... ... before he admits he's lost?
Lolly I believe is shop (lolly pop) and kitchen would be change (kitchen range)
johnny, harries and and oxford have me stumped although I believe it may mean quickly, cigarettes and a specific sum of money.
teddy
Wrong on the quickly, it's a location of sorts, cigarettes and money you have the right idea, just need a bit more sideways thinking maybe.
Bet we have the colonials really baffled, they must think we're sally. (and can you figure sally?)
Mike
I once took up Morris Dancing for the same reason.
teddy
Bullnose, Minor or Traveller?
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