Divided by a common language.....or do Americans know how to give someone the hairy eyeball?

dlowan wrote:

DO Americans know how to give someone the hairy eyeball?

Oral sex obviously. You Aussis are so predictably naughty!

That might make a good screen name. . . . Harry Ignacio Ball?

Or Harriet Isabelle Ball

I used to date a person whose last name was Ball. He used to propose marriage every New Year's Eve. Lordy, I could have been Mrs. Ball. But then, Stew Ball was a racehorse...

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@DrewDad,

Ah, thankee.

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@Thomas,

'Tisn't the Aussie naughtiness, 'tis the German naughty eye.

Neutral

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When I was growing up, sometimes folks were ‘out of snuff’ and we kids ‘picked up our pretties’ else something we needed be 'out of pocket'. And of course all respectable Southerners know the difference between a conniption fit and a hissy fit.

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@dlowan,

What about "Doing it rather brown" (and no, that's not a perverted one although I guess it could be)

"Coming clean" (oops, there's another suggestive one)

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@Foxfyre,

You'll need t explain ALL of that.

Especially the difference between a hissy fit and a conniption fit.

Unless a hissy fit is a tantrum, and a conniption fit is wrath?

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@Mame,

Coming clean I know, what is the brown one?

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@dlowan,

Deb, when you watch "Austin Powers III" and come to the scene where Mike Myers and Michael Caine speak "English English" -- do you understand anything without the subtitles? (No cheating!)

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@dlowan,

dlowan wrote:

You'll need t explain ALL of that.

Especially the difference between a hissy fit and a conniption fit.

Unless a hissy fit is a tantrum, and a conniption fit is wrath?

‘Out of snuff’ - a colliquialism my grandparents used to describe somebody who was out of sorts or irritable.
"Pretties" were toys.
"Out of pocket" meant misplaced.
"Hissy fit" - furious because you aren't getting your way or you are inconvenienced or overly indignant.
"Conniption fit" - excited anger when things are 'going to hell in a handbasket' (another one).

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@Foxfyre,

Foxfyre wrote:

dlowan wrote:

You'll need t explain ALL of that.

Especially the difference between a hissy fit and a conniption fit.

Unless a hissy fit is a tantrum, and a conniption fit is wrath?

‘Out of snuff’ - a colloquialism my grandparents used to describe somebody who was out of sorts or irritable.
"Pretties" were toys.
"Out of pocket" meant misplaced.
"Hissy fit" - furious because you aren't getting your way or you are inconvenienced or overly indignant.
"Conniption fit" - excited anger when things are 'going to hell in a handbasket' (another one).

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We don't talk funny like you lot do.

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@Thomas,

So, like what makes you think I watched Austin Powers I, even?

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@patiodog,

Sorry...all I see on the screen from you is:

"woof woof grrrruff woof, arooo."

Do you have subtitles?

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@dlowan,

http://healingmagichands.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/cartoon-what-we-say-to-dogs.jpg

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@patiodog,

Yeah, but you never said dlowan once, did you?

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@Foxfyre,

Oh.

You can say thaqt again.... Wink

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Been reading a little book on the evolution of the English language around the world. They mention in passing that Strine and American are actually closer to each other than either is to the English spoken in England today...

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@patiodog,

Yes...we're infected.

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