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      CommentAuthorcassbtt
    • CommentTimeFeb 7th 2010 edited
     
    One of my first posts on this forum was of some "Dad-isms"; that is, terms my Pa brought back from the War o'er 'ere.

    Some of the following were distinctly his own, though. They're euphemistic terms you can utilize in nice company. Thus:

    "rumpus" and "hassett" (for one's rear end)
    "doodle-daddle" (covers just about anything; I never heard him say "thingamajig")
    "gant" (which we understood to mean "gaunt")
    "bassad" (bastard)

    I have inherited all of these into my own speech -- and nobody outside the family has a clue what I'm talking about...
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeFeb 7th 2010
     
    Cad was mixing a Jack and a Caesar (Romero, the Joker on the old Batman TV series). Vale, what did you mean about mixing two Jacks to get a Walter?

    My grandmother used to threaten to give my brother and me a "lickin'" if we didn't behave, by which she meant a spanking. We knew she was not strong enough to "lick" anything bigger than a house cat, but the fact that we'd made her angry usually cowed us.

    She also used the word "cunning" (pronounced, "cunnin') the way I've heard British people use it: to mean cute, beguilingly adorable, etc. Babies were always "cunnin'": Ain't he a cunnin' baby!"

    I also grew up calling the basement entrance door the "bulkhead" (mom grew up on a small island where fishing was the main industry). The basement was the "cellar".

    Around here, it's called The Bilco Doors: "I went down to the Bilco doors to get some of the tomatoes we canned last summer." It's because a company called "Bilco" makes just about all the residential basement doors in CT, so it's used to refer not just to the doors themselves but to the whole basement. Word to your marketing staff, Bilco.

    My mother used to refer to a cup of coffee or tea as a "cuppa" ("Now where did I put my cuppa?"), and would request a "heater" rather than a "refill".

    I occasionally hear expressions my mother used on Monty Python, usually when John is being a ratbag housewife. I just can't think of any right now.
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    dad-isms"

    "cruisin for a bruisin" - when we were doing something we knew we shouldn't
    "a wild hair up your ass" - synonymous with "crusin' for a bruisin'"
    "right upside the head" - as in, I'll give you an ice cream "right upside the head" if you don't settle down back there.
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeFeb 7th 2010
     
    My dad used to threaten to "tan your hide"--meaning he'd spank us so much our skin would toughen up. When he wanted us to go to bed, he'd tell us to "head for the hills". I think he thought that was funny. He did have a good sense of humor--better than my mother's; that whole side of the family seemed to be humor-challenged. Not that they didn't laugh, they just didn't understand most jokes, and didn't know how to make a joke. She did like Fawlty Towers, at least. They all understood slapstick and silliness and situational humor (hotelier finds a stiff in a room; doesn't want to alarm the other guests; tries to get the stiff out without anyone noticing), but wit and wisecracks belonged to my dad's side of the family.
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    Cad was mixing a Jack and a Caesar (Romero, the Joker on the old Batman TV series).
    Vale, what did you mean about mixing two Jacks to get a Walter?


    Cad said that my..lol..not so succesful photomontage (I've made it using an online software and I'm not good in manipulating images, anyway) looks like Liberace's gayer brother. Liberace's first name was Wladzu but he was called Walter by his family. So:

    Jack (Cheese)+ Jack (Nicholson, as the Joker)= Walter
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      CommentAuthorenglishcad
    • CommentTimeFeb 8th 2010
     
    Vale you know it's not worked out to well when you have to explain it! Try to be low brow like Cad.
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    I UNDERSTOOD IT, VAL!
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    Lol, you say that only because you want to gainsay Cad!:wink:
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeFeb 9th 2010
     
    I didn't know Liberace's first name, and my memory is pretty well shot these days, so forgive me.

    What did I say?

    :wink:
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    Psssst I googled for Liberace's first name!


    A "mom-ism"

    "In the moon's world": that was my mum's answer to my question "Before being in your tummy, where was I?" Actually she explained me pretty soon how children are conceived and born, she even bought an illustrated book, a suitable book for a 4-5 year old. I understood but couldn't conceive of my non-existence before my parents made me. So I kept on asking. "Before you met dad and married him, where was I?" I must have been very annoying.
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      CommentAuthorenglishcad
    • CommentTimeFeb 9th 2010
     
    Vale an old English saying... You were but a twinkle in your daddy's eye.
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeFeb 9th 2010 edited
     
    You were a beautiful idea in the mind of God.
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeFeb 9th 2010
     
    Of course, if you don't believe in God, you'll have to come up with a different answer.
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    you were all the different elements needed to make you, but in other forms... dare I say, even scientifically, the physical you (that is, the things that make up you, and me for that matter) existed... perhaps it is just the cognitive being explored now. .. you are a vehicle for cognitive progression. A pushing outward from the inward, so to speak.

    how's that for non-god answer?
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    That's a god non-good answer. I mean a good non-godd answer. I mean a non god-noon answer.
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    I had an illustrated book too! I'll go find it!!
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    Okay so I found it and I have the copy in Hebrew - couldn't find any mention of the foreign copy it was translated from (this is where the magic of google failed me), so here's a few pics from the book. (It's made of pieces of paper! So pretty. Credited to a Blake Hampton fellow)



    Well it's not the WHOLE thing, just my favorite bits :wink:
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeFeb 10th 2010
     
    :rolling::rolling::rolling:

    I bought an illustrated book for Miss Thing when she got to a certain age, because I didn't want her to be uninformed. She found the whole thing horribly embarrassing and threw the book in the trash. Maybe I jumped the gun a bit--she was 11 years old, I think. But judging from the stories she told me about what was being said on the school bus, it was long overdue.
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    Yeah, 11 is definitely the age... My class was obsessed with sex when we were 11, you know, like you get when you first discover what it is and are really excited about being so knowledgeable. Fools we were.
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeFeb 11th 2010
     
    She's nearly 14 now, and STILL doesn't want to even think about it. She didn't even like the brief "sex" scene in "Avatar". (The whole scene will be in the DVD, I'm told, but I don't know how explicit it is. She'll just have to hit the FF(s) button.)
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    I think you should just charish this while it lasts :wink: soon enough she might make a 180 degree turn, and after that there's no going back...
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    OP! I HAD THE SAME BOOK!



    What a flashback!

    Did you make that funny collage? It's :rolling:

    MrsT, my mother bought that book for me when I was about 5, I guess, and I wasn't shocked at all. I started feeling uncomfortable about sex when I was about 10 and some boys at school talked about it as if it was a dirty thing, laughing and saying the word "fuck".

    With regard to Quart's answer, I like it but I think it might be too difficult for a 4-5 year old to understand.

    Cad, "You were but a twinkle" in your daddy's eyes" sounds cute.

    My mum believes in God but when I was a child she was going through a sort of a faith crisis (when she was a child and a teenager, her mother gave her a strictly Catholic education, so I think she had a simple rebellion phase. She gave me a Catholic education but not an overpowering one) so I think that's why she didn't mention the mind of God.
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    Oh my GOD that is so WEIRD!! I just love that book. Indeed the collage is of my own making. (Was craving a creative break from studying)
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      CommentAuthorenglishcad
    • CommentTimeFeb 11th 2010
     
    Is it a 'pop up' book?
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    I wish
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    wait.. I still don't get it..

    so, where do babies come from?
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeFeb 11th 2010
     
    I've told Miss Thing (and I really believe this) that there's no high school boy worth losing your virginity with. And damned few college boys. I told her that if she can't wait until marriage (and I don't know anyone who did), at least be very choosy. Make sure the guy isn't going to be bragging all over school about it. The first time should be with someone you love and who loves you, too. Well, every time it should be with someone you love and who loves you too. The only time I ever faked an orgasm was when I had casual sex with a guy I sort of knew. It was AWFUL! I guess I'm just not the sort of person who can do that, and I don't think Miss Thing is, either.

    If that's what someone wants, all the more power to them. I just can't, though.
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    I think cad would suggest teaching Miss Thing otherwise.
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeFeb 11th 2010
     
    Cad can go stick it in his personal orifice. This is my daughter we're talking about, and she's underaged!
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    jeez cad, I can't believe you'd even suggest that! not even funny!!!

    (eh hem... *nervous laughter*... ppshaaa)

    so! who brought this bean dip?
    • CommentAuthorlynthingy
    • CommentTimeFeb 11th 2010
     
    I think we're serving quartertotens on the half shell!
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    quick quick delete delete!!!

    [he's here!]


    "Hey Cad, whatcha up to?. . .

    oh, nothing much. . . just talking about football and shopping. . ."
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      CommentAuthorenglishcad
    • CommentTimeFeb 11th 2010 edited
     
    Hmmm...
    Just for the record. Cad likes mature woman 21 to 40 (will 'help' those over 40, but Cad can't do charity work all the time). Treating them as ladies, unless they request otherwise!

    Mrsthing would be in far more danger from Cads fiendish charm, wit, devilish good looks, vast bank balance...

    LADIES Cad told you all you need to know in his warning thread, think this bares it out...

    psst mrsthing don't worry Cad would need at least a bottle of Brandy first!
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    no wonder drunk people fall forward. those look heavy.
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    Maybe that's what I'm doing.
    Waiting for marriage.

    Yeah, that sounds a lot less pathetic.
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    in fact, it boarders on noble.

    I waited for someone's marriage... don't know who's.. but I'm glad they got hitched.
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      CommentAuthorenglishcad
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2010
     
    Pity the next frame shows Quaters barging all the ladies out of the way...


    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2010
     
    "Quaters"?
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      CommentAuthorCPDolly
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2010 edited
     
    Forgive him, he's too damned thrifty.
    Or dumb.
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    I would only knock them down so that I could heal them with my hippy-dust.

    Then we would make love not war, and draft beer not people, and join the British R.N. it really is something other-than-else!
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      CommentAuthorenglishcad
    • CommentTimeFeb 16th 2010 edited
     
    :shocked: Hippy dust! COKE!! :shocked:
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    oh! no, no... not that kind of hippy-dust. . .

    the kind that peter-pan uses to fly...

    wait.. that may have made matters worse.

    how about we'll hop into my VW vanagon and fly like the magic school bus.

    oh, damn. I'll come in again.
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    hey, thequartertotens, what is hippy-dust?
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    oh, it's nothing.. just a fictional material used to signify peace in powdered form. .

    I mean, a powder.. well.. not a powder.. a snow of sorts..

    ....

    damn.
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    Yumm pixie dust!

    *SNARFLE*

    Hm. This, tatstes... funny.
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeFeb 19th 2010
     
    Interesting. I had some yogurt that tasted kind of funny last night. I threw the rest away, but I *did* have very strange dreams...
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    I had some marionberry jam yesterday that smelled a bit fermented. . . any one know if that should happen or not?

    and mrsthing, pray tell, what sort of strange dreams?
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeFeb 19th 2010
     
    I can't remember now, but I remember waking up and whining to Mr. Thing, "Oh, I'm having such awful dreams, it's hardly worth sleeping!" In one of them, Miss Thing stuck her foot in the water at a river's edge, and the current grabbed her and pulled her under, and she was washed over a waterfall, while I was screaming, "My baby! My baby!"
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    8-l


    wow.. sounds like a horrible night's sleep.
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    And now for something completley different -

    This

    I had some marionberry jam yesterday that smelled a bit fermented. . .

    reminded me that the word fermented reminds me of this:

    Orson Wells' drunk outtakes

    I know, poor guy, too bad he was like this towards the end, but I'm sorry, it just gets funnier and funnier each time I watch it.



    MMMMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH THE French.....