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

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Reply Wed 10 Sep, 2008 10:08 pm
Do we???

Shocked
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Reply Wed 10 Sep, 2008 10:20 pm
Piss Off Early Tomorrow's Saturday!
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Reply Thu 11 Sep, 2008 02:44 am
hingehead wrote:

Piss Off Early Tomorrow's Saturday!



I see!!!!
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Reply Thu 11 Sep, 2008 05:32 am
FUBB (fucked up beyond belief) is a step beyond FUBAR (fucked up beyond recognition), which is a step beyond SNAFU (situation normal -- all fucked up). It really is a handle little scale for gauging circumstances at a given moment. I do know CRAFT and FIGJAM...


JCs?
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Reply Thu 11 Sep, 2008 06:24 am
Blimey. Who's a clever dog, then?
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Reply Thu 11 Sep, 2008 03:14 pm
Dunno. I may have to RTFM.
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Reply Thu 11 Sep, 2008 03:15 pm
You missed the intermediary between SNAFU and FUBAR: TARFU, or "things are really fucked up."
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Reply Thu 11 Sep, 2008 04:04 pm
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JCs?


Stood for 'Jesus Christs' in reference to sandals that girls used to wear to school.

Used to be very common parlance...
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Reply Thu 11 Sep, 2008 04:08 pm
We don't have Preparation H, but we do have Oil of Olay (but up until a few years ago it was called Oil of Ulan (same bottle and label) for decades.
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Reply Thu 11 Sep, 2008 04:08 pm
Do merkins have Twisties?
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Reply Thu 11 Sep, 2008 05:28 pm
Considering what a merkin is....

http://www.sharpsusa.com/blog/wp-images/media/MerkinFl.jpg

...I'm assuming one could have a twisty.




(Or are you talking about Murricans, and those wire twist-tie things? Or something akin to a swirly? Or a titty-twister?)

(Thanks for TARFU back there, by the way, I think it was DD...)
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Reply Thu 11 Sep, 2008 05:59 pm
Quote:
Stood for 'Jesus Christs' in reference to sandals that girls used to wear to school.

Used to be very common parlance...


never heard of it!
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Reply Thu 11 Sep, 2008 06:02 pm
Twisties:

http://www.homesick.com.au/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=751
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Reply Thu 11 Sep, 2008 06:19 pm
Oh. That's Twisties.


Look like Cheetos to me.
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Reply Thu 11 Sep, 2008 06:32 pm
Aussie crap in a bag...
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Reply Thu 11 Sep, 2008 10:39 pm
Or Cheez Kurls
by 'merkins' I think hh meant Americans, or am I wrong?
Yall getting into text talk? I know my teen is - OY! Only one I had to ask about was "powned" - like owned only someone somewhere made a typo, but it means you beat someone at a game or such - "We totally POWNED 'em, man!"
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Reply Fri 12 Sep, 2008 04:27 am
I believe that's "pwned," actually, but I didn't know until now why that was so...
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Reply Fri 12 Sep, 2008 07:59 am
suxorz.
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Reply Fri 12 Sep, 2008 07:59 am
He does, indeed, mean Americans.

I don't think it has anything to do with text talk...he is gently pulling our American friends' legs by likening them to pubic wigs.
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Reply Fri 12 Sep, 2008 08:00 am
I beg your pardon?
 

 
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