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

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Thomas
 
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Reply Wed 3 Sep, 2008 08:41 am
@dlowan,
dlowan wrote:
DO Americans know how to give someone the hairy eyeball?

Oral sex obviously. You Aussis are so predictably naughty!
roger
 
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Reply Wed 3 Sep, 2008 11:59 am
That might make a good screen name. . . . Harry Ignacio Ball?
ossobuco
 
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Reply Wed 3 Sep, 2008 02:01 pm
@roger,
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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dlowan
 
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Reply Wed 3 Sep, 2008 03:47 pm
@DrewDad,
Ah, thankee.

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dlowan
 
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Reply Wed 3 Sep, 2008 03:48 pm
@Thomas,
'Tisn't the Aussie naughtiness, 'tis the German naughty eye.

Neutral
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Foxfyre
 
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Reply Wed 3 Sep, 2008 03:56 pm
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.
Mame
 
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Reply Wed 3 Sep, 2008 03:56 pm
@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)

dlowan
 
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Reply Wed 3 Sep, 2008 04:05 pm
@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?
dlowan
 
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Reply Wed 3 Sep, 2008 04:05 pm
@Mame,
Coming clean I know, what is the brown one?
Thomas
 
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Reply Wed 3 Sep, 2008 04:21 pm
@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!)
Foxfyre
 
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Reply Wed 3 Sep, 2008 04:26 pm
@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).
Foxfyre
 
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Reply Wed 3 Sep, 2008 04:27 pm
@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).
patiodog
 
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Reply Wed 3 Sep, 2008 04:45 pm
We don't talk funny like you lot do.
dlowan
 
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Reply Wed 3 Sep, 2008 04:54 pm
@Thomas,
So, like what makes you think I watched Austin Powers I, even?
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dlowan
 
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Reply Wed 3 Sep, 2008 04:55 pm
@patiodog,
Sorry...all I see on the screen from you is:

"woof woof grrrruff woof, arooo."

Do you have subtitles?


patiodog
 
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Reply Wed 3 Sep, 2008 05:00 pm
@dlowan,
http://healingmagichands.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/cartoon-what-we-say-to-dogs.jpg
dlowan
 
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Reply Wed 3 Sep, 2008 05:02 pm
@patiodog,
Yeah, but you never said dlowan once, did you?
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dlowan
 
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Reply Wed 3 Sep, 2008 05:03 pm
@Foxfyre,
Oh.

You can say thaqt again.... Wink
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patiodog
 
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Reply Wed 3 Sep, 2008 05:08 pm
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...
dlowan
 
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Reply Wed 3 Sep, 2008 05:12 pm
@patiodog,
Yes...we're infected.

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