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Sugarplum

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 12:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks for the info on the faces ppl. The "knocking up" phrase may be northern, i'm in the south of england, which would explain it (also, where i live is fairly rural, we're always the last to know phrases! )

yay! i did a winky face! :)

Dan

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 12:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I am a French Canadian myself meaning a French speaking Canadian, not a Canadian with a French parent. And I can tell you that we take the best of all worlds, English Canada, our good friends from the south, the Brits and our old friends the French. We hear/see/eat something we like, we adopt it. That's why we have the best "cuisine" in the world. Have you ever tried our "poutine", it's to die for.

And I agree with Jan "about" (pronounce abuout" :-) ) the Bloody Ceasar with Clamato juice. I ask for one once in an American Airline (or was it Delta) flight one day going down to North Carolina and they never heard of it and I had to settle for a Bloody Mary. Boy was I glad my flight back was with Air Canada. I had my Ceasar (or two) and I was "satisfied".

Sugarplum

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 12:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've got to go finish packing for tomorrow. Thank you everyone for being so welcoming. I'll see you all in a week (hopefully). It was nice meeting you all. :)

Naja

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 12:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
wow, my faces were showing up accidentally with just colon : and a closing parenthesis--> )
..LOL :)

Let me see if it works for a winky ;)

nope

Belovedaunt

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 12:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
As a Canadian, I work for a large American Company and am constantly being ribbed (good-naturedly) about the words I use

sh-edule instead of sk-edule
pr-oh-cess instead of pr-aw-cess
al-yoo-min-ium instead of al-u-minum

Bohawkins

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 12:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
From where I'm from:

moloko - milk
skolliwoll - school
sinny (cine) - movies
droog - friend
vaysay - washroom

Kmjm

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 12:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My husband just came home, and since he's from Liverpool, I asked him about "knocking up". Believe me, the man is a fount of trivia- he was definitely familiar with the term. Apparently the expression originated in early industrial areas in the north. Clocks were too expensive for the working class, so there were professional "knockers" whose job was to go around tapping on people's bedroom windows to wake them up for early shifts.

I'm sure you all wanted to know that!

Katlady53

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 12:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've always loved British slang, and I thought I'd heard most of it through reading P.D. James and Elizabeth George. :) But I never knew that the Brits had relocated our fannies! Thanks for the valuable info, GAL!

Katlady53

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 12:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
KMJM, thanks for the trivia! It's always interesting to know how certain phrases got started! :)

Maris

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 12:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I guess it is safe to assume that they dont sell "Fanny packs" over there.

Katlady53

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 12:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Maris!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kellirippa

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 12:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
DAN: YOu're right, Poutine is to DIE for, literally, french fries with gravy and cheese curds....that's a whole lotta cholesterol going on!

Jan

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 12:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
kmjm thanks for that explanation. Thought I had heard it from a Brit but this old memory of mine..ya just never know.

Bo where are you from exactly anyway???? (although vaysay I have heard of. It is (oe was in the late '60's) the European expression for washroom (from WC..water closet)

beloved must be more a west coast thing..we say skedule and process and aluminum here in Ontario (well I should say that's what I say..I can't speak for all Ontarians)

Dan those Poutines..we have them here too (I live in a very French city)...but man, cholesterol city! (it's fries and gravy and cheese curds!)

Jan

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 12:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kelly..didn't see your post till I was done (I'm such a slow typist) ..great minds think alike!

Katlady53

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 12:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Maris, we have candy stores in the Midwest called "Fannie Mae."

Jan

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 01:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have an aunt who always called that "fanny place" a kumquat? Was that all hers or has anyone else heard that?

Belovedaunt

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 01:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How about the expression "Bob's your uncle -- Fanny's your Aunt"?

Okay we now know what a Fanny is so does that mean we sit on our Bob's? LOL

Belovedaunt

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 01:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Never heard kumquat, I have heard lala, girlie bits, squidge, and a few others that are less than mentionable.

Katlady53

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 01:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've never heard kumquat either, but I like it. Lol Stern refers to it as poontang...

Heyltslori

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 01:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
<...imagines sitting on our Bob...>

Jan

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 01:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I thought it might be hers. I guess part of the word reminded her of the activity..can I say that here..she is a very raunchy 86 yr old!

Djgirl5235

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 01:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Jan - you're talking for me as well! Only my British friends say "Al-yu-min-ium" and I tease them (good naturedly) all the time. Interestingly enough, I have family visiting for Portland, Oregon right now, and between the numerous Ontarions they're related to, apparently, I have a different accent than the others... weird eh?

Jan

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 01:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
well of course, DJ I am sure you agree that we people in Ontario do not have an accent at all. It is the rest of the world that does.

Babyspock

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 01:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sugarplum, are you still here? Damn! I think he/she left. I have some questions for him/her. Maybe someone else can help.
I wonder if there are any UK websites that transcript what's happening on the live feed? With the ability to tape the live feed off tv, UK should be able to have a more detailed and accurate description of the live feed.
I think it's great that the live feed is broadcast in UK on a 24-hrs delay. Whenever something important happens and the live feed posts are sketchy we can ask someone in UK to get a better description. There are still lots of people who don't believe that anything happened between Nicole and Will in the hottub.
I wonder if there will be an improvement in the live feed when UK starts its broadcast. Right now we rarely have more than two different feeds and too many times the same on every feed.

Dipo

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 01:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Try http://bigbrother.digitalspy.co.uk , thats where I catch up on their house, but they only have updates some of the time. HAven't found anything else.