| Author | Message | ||
     Corporatemonkey |
Harder for others to get in. I looked seriously at Aussieland in the late 90's. I didn't have any serious assets, nor could I afford university as an international. They didn't want me  Someday I will be back | ||
| Badlionsfan |
It seems to me that there is a general decline in daily conversation and interaction between Americans. If one more flipping person LOL's me I am gonna take my gat and git up in der grilz and pop a cap in that azz.  } | ||
| Danger_dave |
Beats me. If you are from the 3rd world, socially inept, 'English challenged' and with the desire to drive a Taxi - yer in. | ||
| Danger_dave |
You just watch it Mr Lionsfan - I have an distressing lions image in the library. I'm reluctant to use it - I have some sympathy - it's been a long time since Barry Sanders - but me an' slicker is tight ya know. Mud's thicker than football. | ||
| Damnut |
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| Tramp |
"The "F" in WFO has always, from the start, represented a profanity. This "full" mumbo-jumbo is a later decaffeination. Danger dave- That Dilly and Gaff explanation makes little sense, besides the fact that it's entirely inaccurate. You can has NO cheeseburger, DD.  | ||
| Danger_dave |
>>besides the fact that it's entirely inaccurate. << It's entirely accurate thanks. Mr Dilley the Cricketer: http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/england/content/pl ayer/11893.html There are others. The American Oxford also cites: gaff noun Brit., informal a house, apartment, or other building, esp. as being a person's home : John's new gaff is on McDonald Road. ORIGIN 1930s: of unknown origin. So Thar. | ||
| Tramp |
It's inaccurate as defining "DILLIGAF". * * * I think we ALL can think of hundreds of Pommie surnames, doesn't mean they apply to DILLIGAF...that's nutty talk. * * Where is Gaff defined as cockney slang? Shouldn't it rhyme with something, ya hamptonwycke?  (Message edited by tramp on August 12, 2008) | ||
| Danger_dave |
Oh - I see - I thought the 'do i look like' part was taken as old hat. | ||
| Tramp |
The greatest beam of light, in my long winters spent ski coaching in Europe, were Aussies and kiwis coming over from the UK, (usually bartenders on 2-year work visas)for a few weeks of high-energy partying. Down to the person, these bastards really brought the smile level up, entirely The language barrier provided many yuks, with respect to athletic terminology... ....as did visits to discos | ||
| Danger_dave |
Aussies use a fair bit of rhyme too. If I said: I'm gunna take the trouble and strife to steak and kidney with the billy lids - any Aussie (and I suspect you) would know I was going to Sydney with the Wife and Kids. Evolved from cockney. 'The Gaffer' was the Publican I think - ran the Public House - it evolved to your 'ouse was yer gaff and you was the gaffer in yer own 'ouse. I thought Mr Dilley's Gaff was a rather clever connotation. | ||
| Tramp |
Clever, but entirely contrived, after the fact, and, therefor, inaccurate. I still don't see the etymological genesis of gaff. | ||
| Danger_dave |
The oxford is 'origin unknown'. | ||
| Tramp |
So is it cockeny slang? I was under the impression (and, PLEASE correct me if i'm wrong, I've never left gatwick or heathrow, en route to the continent) that cockney slang is based on rhyming works, like, say "dog and bone" for "Phone", or 9as in Austin Powers) "How's your father" for "lather"...? | ||
| Danger_dave |
Dunno - my Londonolexiconology isn't that good. The ability to make up words seems intact. | ||
| Slaughter |
Rymenslang (or rhymenslang) v. cockney Tilsburys used to indicate socks/stockings. Rhymes with Tilsbury Docks - docks rhymes with socks. Tilsburys are worn under boots. Cockney-speke can use the term "socks" to describe footwear or fighting. | ||
| Jettdawg |
"gonna take my gat and git up in der grilz and pop a cap in that azz" I get "grillz" and "pop a cap", but where does "gat" come from? | ||
| Damnut |
Gat= slang fer gun | ||
| Tramp |
??!?!?!?! "gat" comes from OLD, prohibition-era lexicon... just check out some James Cagney Edward G. Robinson flix!!!! Came from "gattling Gun", as mobsters first began calling their Thompsons, and it soon spread to handguns, as well. | ||
| Slaughter |
"GAT" is the sound of a cat coughing up a hairball. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
Gat, for illegal, high capacity, cheap gun. As for being from the Gattling family, I have only seen one guy ever hand carry one of those. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc2GME6M7zM GE Mini Gun when you absolutely positively have to level everything in sight, accept no substitutes. | ||
| Tramp |
Ever fire a mini (on or off a strut)? I have . It's swell. | ||
| Spiderman |
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| Cityxslicker |
All the time I did in the military, packing a piece and shooting lead down range was all training and tactics, nothing ever live fire. On the upside, nobody was shooting back either. They just are more comfortable having linguists locked up in a bunker somewhere, with a set of headphones and pot of coffee. | ||
| Buellinachinashop |
"They just are more comfortable having linguists locked up in a bunker somewhere, with a set of headphones and pot of coffee." Dude, are you Grimes from Blackhawk Down? | ||
| Krassh |
"GAT" is the sound of a cat coughing up a hairball. Actually ACK! is a cat coughing up a hairball, so says Bill the Cat.  | ||
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| Tramp |
Linguist win battles, topple despotic regimes and were responsible for the fall of European communism. Weren't many firefights on the K1 | ||
| Danger_dave |
I reckon what looks good on a cat, is a Doberman. |
