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Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 21 May 2011, 18:11

Blow a weed-To smoke a cigarette
Pogey Bait-junk food
Geedunk-Navy term for a place to buy snacks
Fart sack-Mattress Cover
Seagull Manager-A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

Assmosis-The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.

RuqeeD · Post by **RuqeeD** » 31 Jan 2012, 19:53

My sister always says 'Jeez Louise and Thelma' whenever someone bugs her and she wants them to chill.

My aunt says something like 'My foot in the jam' whenever someone tells her to do something impossible. She also loves saying 'Your toes' whenever she disagrees about something, oh she's weird, I quite adore her.

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 31 Jan 2012, 20:31

In Utah a popular expression is Oh Godfrey or Oh my Heck. And Potlicker.

Wintermute · Post by **Wintermute** » 31 Jan 2012, 21:19

I'm from Iowa in the United States and my mother and grandmother always throw an 'r' into words containing "wash." Ex: Washington, washing machine, washer. They will say "Warshington," "warshing machine," "warsher." I don't really know why because no one else around here does this. Irish/German heritage.

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » 31 Jan 2012, 22:42

I used to work with a guy who whenever anything went wrong he would say "Ahh F*** A Duck" It cracked me up and he usually said it five to six times a day.

A24 · Post by **A24** » 14 Feb 2012, 08:34

I live in the southern most part of New Jersey (very different from North Jersey mind you!). There are lots of beaches and a lot of tourists in the Summer. The locals refer to the tourists as "shoobies". Apparently, this term comes from the tourists that used to come down to the Shore from Philadelphia and New York with their lunches in a shoebox. When you are a local, you can definitely "tell" who the shoobies are......they seem to leave their brains at home - especially while driving!

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 14 Feb 2012, 10:19

I used to work for a guy who called everyone Bub, even his wife.

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » 14 Feb 2012, 17:03

Bighuey wrote:I used to work for a guy who called everyone Bub, even his wife.

Same as "Wolverine".

Va_treehugger · Post by **Va_treehugger** » 15 Feb 2012, 02:58

I recently moved to Minnesota from Virginia. In Minnesota they call a casserole a "Hotdish". Thought that was kinda weird.

Geneen Karstens · Post by **Geneen Karstens** » 13 Mar 2012, 21:22

My grandmother was a Quaker and she used to say "everybody's queer but me and thee and sometimes I wonder about thee."

C0ldf1re · Post by **C0ldf1re** » 13 Mar 2012, 22:51

I've just been talking to a very interesting Canadian on another forum. He said he was working in an "oil patch", which seemed to me to mean an "oil spill". It turns out that he meant what I would have called an "oil field"; rather more planned and rather less messy!

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 14 Mar 2012, 04:05

Geneen Karstens wrote:My grandmother was a Quaker and she used to say "everybody's queer but me and thee and sometimes I wonder about thee."

A friend of mine has a variation of your grandmother's saying ... 'All the world is mad save thee and I, and even thee is a little mad'

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 14 Mar 2012, 09:09

A friend of mine used to say Ive got to lead the kiddies across the swamp when he had to go to work.

dindindin · Post by **dindindin** » 15 Mar 2012, 16:35

This is a great topic!!! I spent part of my life in England and still remember some words/expressions/customs you
won't hear anywhere else:
1. nick-to steal
2. queue-a line formed by people waiting for?
3. shedule-schedule, but the k sound is omitted
4. remember, remember the 5th of november--The day Guy Fawkes blew up Parliament. Celebrated by shooting off fire
works
5. penny for the guy--means "can you spare some change for bangers"
6. bangers--firecrackers
7. Rags, Bottles, and Bones!! This is the coolest tradition and I hope its still in practice. This is the cry of The Ragman
as he rides through neighborhoods looking for things nobody wants anymore. He rides in a black carriage, pulled
by a beautiful horse. He yells RBB! to let everyone know he in the neighborhood. He comes to a neighborhood on a specific day. If you have something for him to pickup you leave it near the curb in a big wicker container(this part I'm
not sure of, whether the wicker was my mothers and that's what she used, or if everyone had one). He stops, puts
your throwaways in his wicker and is off. What he's looking for are items which he can repair and sell out of his store.
My brother and I couldnt wait for him to show up each week. Are their any British members who can tell me if this is
still done?

C0ldf1re · Post by **C0ldf1re** » 15 Mar 2012, 17:49

dindindin wrote:...
1. nick-to steal
2. queue-a line formed by people waiting for?
...
4. remember, remember the 5th of november--The day Guy Fawkes blew up Parliament. Celebrated by ... fireworks
...
7. Rags, Bottles, and Bones!! This is the coolest tradition and I hope its still in practice. This is the cry of The Ragman
as he rides through neighborhoods... Are their any British members who can tell me if this is still done?

1. Nick can mean to steal, to arrest, a police station, or a prison. "He nicked a car. The police nicked him. They took him to the nick. The Judge sentenced him to 6 months in nick."

2. The British always queue for things, tickets, buses, service at a shop counter, whatever. It is just an orderly line, so first come is first served. We find it quite repulsive when we see foreigners in a mob, all trying to push to the front. Queue is an old and obsolete word for tail, borrowed from French, but a Chinaman's long pigtail is still called a queue.

4. Guy Fawkes did not blow up Parliament. He tried but failed, which is why we still celebrate his arrest and execution!

Remember, remember the fifth of November,
gunpowder, treason and plot,
I see no reason, why gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot.

7. Rag and Bone men are no more in England. I remember one from when I was a very little boy. He would call "Rah-Boooowne" as he came around with his horse and cart. People would offer him old clothes and furniture where they had bought new, but the old stuff was too good to be thrown away. He would give them only pennies in return, of course, but that was better than throwing things out in the garbage and getting nothing. Apparently his horse died, so he decided to retire, and that was the last time a horse was ever seen in our part of town.

If you bother to notice, your garbage collectors will take a good look at your garbage when they collect it. They will personally keep anything that seems of even marginal value, as a perk of their job. (Perk is short for perquisite, meaning a non-cash kind of bonus, in case it is only an English expression.)