Humphreys - It's the new swear word.

Dear Sir,

Just to let you know that the same thing happened to me.

I think that this is OUTRAGEOUS!


Yours Sincerely

Hugh Jarse.

Known as Hugh Jass in the US.

I knew a girl name Anita Manda Huggankiss.

She was ugly...

maybe Mr. Herbert H. should change his name to Herbert Fleshystructureonthebackofacamelhreys.

<dialing>


ahem, um, yes, hello.....it seems my brother might be eating at your restaurant right now, and, well, uh, we are havinging a family emergency.... I know it's very crowded there, but......could you please, um, page him for me?

Name? oh my yes, thank you, that would be my brother mike, yes, michael hunt.

During my day job as a printer,I noticed a business card for Sandy Pratt
What chance has he got?

<shrug>

It's all blue potatoes to me.

Please explain Michael Hunt and Sandy Pratt. Are they particularly British?

um, mike h--- sounds like a slang term for a female anatomical part, but i don't get sandy pratt either.

YES
Mike Hunt,if you are female,say it fast.
Sandy Pratt,if you are female,it's what happens if you make out on the beach.
Please try to keep up with the British humour :wink:

Oooh ... now I get it. "Michael Hunt" didnt ring a bell, but "Mike Hunt", My C*unt, ok.

A prat = an idjut, some pathetic person..."what a prat"

Oh? OK, so I didnt get the Pratt one either ... nemmind

NO,British slang for female genitalia :wink:

You can't explain humour,whether US or UK,you either "get it" or you don't.
For a quick reference,study Monty Python,Spike Milligan,Black Adder,to name but six

Well, explaining what a "prat" is helps. :wink:

RIP, Phil McKraken.

heh, heh....

Thanks guys, for being good ESL teachers.

The Queen's English has always been inspiring and, um, enlightening, in a pratty sort of way.

Barry's correct in what he says re. the Pratt thing. The original meaning of the word was indeed a reference to a ladies front bottom, but over the years it has gradually come to mean someone who is an idiot. I would imagine that any young person in the UK would not realise that the word had such rude connotations.

I went to school when the word was considered almost as rude as F*** and C***, and my friend, Harold Pratt (Harry, which soon became hairy when the bullies at school found out), basically fought his way through school, due to the ridiculing he received in the playground.

I once knew a Mike Hunt, and heard his name called out on the Tannoy several times. He sent round a memo, asking that everyone call him Michael.

The funniest name I've ever seen (funny to me, anyway) wasn't actually rude. I was flicking through a phone book once, looking for someone in the "B" section, and came across a Cedric Bumblebonce. This cracked me up for quite a while, but my friends didn't really find it that funny.

That's when I first started to realise that I was "special" (or retarded, as Set would say).