Oh yea I’m watching, this will be fun. You’re up Dodgy me mate[:D]
Actually, it’s really cool having friends in Australia because for me, Dodgy is 17 hours ahead time-wise. He’s living in the future !!! Now I just have to figure out how to get him to give me sports scores early enough so I can make decent bets !!!
We are in the same time zone HooYaa, next time I chat with him I’ll see if he can hook us up with the Mega millions lotto numbers.[:)]
There you go, we are definitely on the same page . . .!!!
Actually, historically speaking; I was having a conversation with a friend about the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the fact that is apparently missed in the movies. For the Japanese, the attack on Pearl, to them, was on Monday, the 8th of December.
Yeah, you guessed it Eugene, I come from a land downunder. And as for Mr. flaming HooYa Deep Sea, well…
Why do you blokes call chips, fries? And what the blazes are ‘flip flops’? Also, can someone please tell me what ‘sneakers’ are? Or is that some kind of classified black ops thing??? And strike me bloody pink, what is a ‘fanny’ bag??? I mean really? And ‘shorts’, how did yer Reg Grundies come to be called shorts??? I mean shorts are short strides that ya wear in the summer.
I dunno, it leaves a simple bloke from the bush a bit confused.
Over to you HooYa…
Dirty Dodgy from downunder.
Most politicians here are “flip-flops” one policy before the election and a totally different stand after they are elected.Naming names will get this thread locked and me banned [:#]
Well I’ll be. You won’t believe it Tojo, but it’s the same here. As far as I’m concerned, they’ve all got their snouts in the trough. And that’s as political as I get.
Dodgy
I can make claim to have once upon a time to have worn flip-flops on my feet, and I’m partial to having a sneakers with a mug of tea.
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Why do you call cookies biscuits ?Plus you call a cars hood the bonnet and the trunk the boot?
Eugene!
Funny you should mention that. After a short career in the Shell/B.P. Fleet and being home ported in England, I started doing that too. Every once in a while I will accidently say that to a mechanic and get the funniest look!
This goes way back to coach times as far as Boot is concerned and when cars first were on England’s roads the engine covering, usually shaped sheet metal, held down by leather straps, was called the Bonnet, Because they considered the engine the driving force and a woman’s head had to be protected by a bonnet from the weather.
There are other phrases that stick out to me, But one of the ones I could relate to was Bodgers. They were those folks who built something useable from junk and found stuff! Don’t take this a gospel, this is only what I have dug up in general conversation witth British and Aussie friends.
So, I’d guess that we all talk a bit odd to the other person’s frame of mind, and that makes us all special . . . (and some are just a little more special than others)
And then, when you go from regular speak to slang or colloquialisms, well then you can go buggy trying to decipher what that other guy is saying. But then again, that’s half the fun, right??
Plus they call tech or merchanical geeks Boffins!
My son and I have been busy with a summer build and I named us Bodgit & Bodgit.
Well Ugene, I believe that TB has the right of it, at least as far as the term boot is concerned, I’m not sure about the bonnet, but it makes a great story! Even your stagecoach had a storage area called the boot. We also had stagecoaches. Your most famous line was Wells Fargo, ours was Cobb and Co. You had outlaws, we had bushrangers. (Aussies also refer to their in-laws as outlaws…
As for cookies, well all I can say there is we speak the Queen’s English, real bloody bonza mate! [:D]
As for ‘boffins’, yer getting ya countries buggered up mate. Boffins is Pommie speak and that’s another rabbit hole altogether!
And as for you two pair of jokers, Armournut and HooYa, it’s not that we’re in front of you, it’s that your behind. [whstl] Just saying. And HooYa c’mon mate. Have you given up already??? I mean stone the flamin crows mate, where’s the challenge? I had us down for a right royal stoush.
On another note, Est. 1961 I reckon what you and your son are doing is fantastic and I love the name.
Cheers all,
Dodgy
I like candy corn in small amounts, like a handful. A bag is too much. Sort of like those orange marshmellow circus peanuts. One or two is okay, but a bag is too many.
As stated before, it is a piece of candy that resembles a kernal of corn. It’s a traditional fall and Halloween candy item probably because ears of corn were what the native Americans taught the Pilgrims how to plant and harvest so they didn’t starve during the first winter in America.
Towards late summer and early fall, stores begin selling large bags of the candy, but closer to Halloween, the bags are smaller sized and have less than a handful in them so they can be handed out during Trick-or-treating on Halloween.
Dang Dodgy if that how it works thwn I need to shoot you the numbers and we can do a 3way split…sorry HooYaa that how I roll LOL.
Marshmallow Peeps. I hate those damn’ things. Even though they’re made right here in Bethlehem. I have never liked them, even as a kid. You might as well just grab a 5-pound bag of granulated sugar and a tablespoon, and go nuts. Fegh.
I agree with that Baron. When they bring stuff like that into work I imagine eating a spoon full of sugar, wasn’t always that way inclined.