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by azhdragon
Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:51 pm
Forum: Res Diversae
Topic: Pun Times
Replies: 287
Views: 684825

mark nailed-that-one-I-did Bailey

carpenters will tell you it's better to screw than glue.


Azh "a pretty good chiseller himself" Dragon
by azhdragon
Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:36 am
Forum: Res Diversae
Topic: Pun Times
Replies: 287
Views: 684825

It's plane that we could chop this up but why not take a circular route, and rasp on towards morning. mark has-his-shop-all-mentioned-sorta Bailey I have very little to adze to that, I mitre's well admit. but perhaps I can be enjoined to dovetail one or two modest ones that are tongue-in-groove ......
by azhdragon
Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:19 am
Forum: Res Diversae
Topic: Pun Times
Replies: 287
Views: 684825

This doesn't auger well; I'm bracing for more bad puns from this lot.
well, you know the drill ...


Alex "something punny this way comes" Dragon
by azhdragon
Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:26 pm
Forum: Res Diversae
Topic: Pun Times
Replies: 287
Views: 684825

Driving in the (not so local) country side the other day, I spotted a sign for a side-road that apparently led to the town of Laang. Inspired, I turned to my partner and said "Has that sign recently been replaced?" He looked at me confused and said "no, it's always been there". &...
by azhdragon
Sun Nov 05, 2006 8:22 pm
Forum: Slang
Topic: British slang
Replies: 47
Views: 172925

[they might not have felt they needed to say bugger, I prefer less objectionable terms, but "to each his own", said the old lady who kissed the cow. My point being, of course, that to an average Aussie, "bugger" is not an objectionable term. It's a mild epithet, much like "...
by azhdragon
Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:36 am
Forum: Slang
Topic: British slang
Replies: 47
Views: 172925

Good one! And bullocks sounds so much better than 'oh cr-p!".

here's the ad I mentioned in the other thread. and here's the parody it spawned:


and yes, both were played on regular free-to-air tv, uncensored.

Azh.
by azhdragon
Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:02 pm
Forum: Res Diversae
Topic: Pun Times
Replies: 287
Views: 684825

tan: good thing. if you were a rabbit, you'd prolly die from mixin' ya toesies.
then again maybe not.

mark mystified Bailey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxomatosis
perhaps that might de-mystify you.

Azh
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by azhdragon
Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:21 am
Forum: Slang
Topic: The Slang Generation Checkup
Replies: 47
Views: 247322

As a general rule of thumb, you might not want to use the cat reference in the States, and in the movies from Down Under 'stuffed' is usually used like the first word in fubar, here. mark have-always-loved-the-differences-in-slang-amongst-our-English-speaking-brothers Bailey "stuffed" is ...
by azhdragon
Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:02 am
Forum: Res Diversae
Topic: Pun Times
Replies: 287
Views: 684825

And yet, and yet, this place is dead sometimes, heavy sigh, mark we-need-more-puns-we-need-more-puns-we-need-more-puns Bailey I was just talking to a friend on IRC ... *azh warms tan's toesies ... <Tan> yay *azh mixes tan's toes up, and then thinks 'I hope tan's not a rabbit' <Tan> not the last tim...
by azhdragon
Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:44 pm
Forum: Res Diversae
Topic: Pun Times
Replies: 287
Views: 684825

Groooaaaan.

mark a-true-pun-makes-you-groan Bailey
my youngest once wisely remarked that puns are jokes for grown-ups, cos they make you groan.

mind you, he was only about 4 at the time :-)


Azh
a pun a day keeps EVERYONE away
by azhdragon
Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:01 am
Forum: Slang
Topic: The Slang Generation Checkup
Replies: 47
Views: 247322

Azh, how does the US as you saw it recently, compare with Australia now, in regards to slang? anything surprising? mark got-quite-a-laugh-from-my-Aussie-friends-when I described-myself-as-stuffed-following a-large-meal Bailey During my stay in the Napa Valley, I heard very little slang that I was n...
by azhdragon
Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:10 pm
Forum: Slang
Topic: The Slang Generation Checkup
Replies: 47
Views: 247322

My English friends back in the fifties would cheerfully ask me if I had a fag. My American high-school comrades (oops, another one) certainly wouldn't. Oh yes, one can still certainly "bum a fag" here in Aus, though in some circles it'll garner a snigger or two. Asking an American friend ...
by azhdragon
Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:43 pm
Forum: Slang
Topic: The Slang Generation Checkup
Replies: 47
Views: 247322

As someone else commented, slang is not only generational, it's also geographical. The slang test pegged me as 60s, but I was a child in the 60s, and a teen in the 70s. However, I live in Australia, and slang moved much more slowly across cultures then than it does now. Azh (still wrestling with the...

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