Wierd sayings - Page 6

Sundae · 10-31-2005, 07:50 AM

A cob is officially a crusty bread roll here, although its used generically for any type of bread roll.

Its an alien word to me, as in the South a cob is a small horse. I felt really embarrassed the first few times I said "Bacon cob please" but got used to it when I took a Saturday job in a bakers.

You can also say that someone "has a cob on" which is never taken as wearing a bread roll - it means in a bad mood. Other local sayings include "mardy" for grumpy or bad tempered and "nesh" for soft (as in not hardy).

Is it true that fortnight for 2 weeks isn't generally in use in the US?

Cyclefrance · 10-31-2005, 07:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

A cob is officially a crusty bread roll here, although its used generically for any type of bread roll.

Its an alien word to me, as in the South a cob is a small horse. I felt really embarrassed the first few times I said "Bacon cob please" but got used to it when I took a Saturday job in a bakers.

You can also say that someone "has a cob on" which is never taken as wearing a bread roll - it means in a bad mood. Other local sayings include "mardy" for grumpy or bad tempered and "nesh" for soft (as in not hardy).

Is it true that fortnight for 2 weeks isn't generally in use in the US?

Telepathy, or what??? Nice timing!

wolf · 10-31-2005, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

Is it true that fortnight for 2 weeks isn't generally in use in the US?

Very true. And we can't figure out what the heck a "stone" is either, unless we're heaving it through someone's window.

(There is a social organization nearby for mental patients called Fortnighters, because when they formed (30 or 40 years ago) they met once every two weeks. None of the current members know why the club is called Fortnighters.)

Trilby · 10-31-2005, 08:08 AM

i never hear 'fortnight' used here in my little part of the US. EVER. We say, "coupla weeks." We slurr a lot (and not because we're drunk--well, some of us are of course), but it's mainly laziness.

Now: is a bacon cob like a bacon sandwich? Or, is it bacon baked into the cob? Like a frittata?

Sundae · 10-31-2005, 08:25 AM

A bacon cob is like a sandwich.
But a cheese cob can mean a cob filled with cheese, or a soft white cheese topped roll (very greasy, not very nice).

In fact cheese is complicated all round, because they have cheese mix as a filling (cheese, mayo, spring onion) and tuna-cheese mix (tuna, mayo, cheese, onion).

I made my own sandwiches for a few months when I moved here! (which I call a packed lunch, and everyone else calls a pack-up). Perhaps people should stay where they were born.....?

Trilby · 10-31-2005, 08:32 AM

We say, "Did you pack?" meaning, bring your own lunch. In New Jersey I think it means "did you bring your gun?" If you were to say "pack up" to me I would think it meant you were moving.

Why is English cheese so complicated? And, what is Wensleydale and why can't I find it over here?

Sundae · 10-31-2005, 08:59 AM

I'll start a cheese thread & answer you there

Is the term "brown bagging it" regional? I've certainly read it somewhere.....

Cyclefrance · 10-31-2005, 09:41 AM

Stop it you two - all this talk of food is making me hungry. Presume you know the Englishman, Scotsman, Irishman sandwich joke - if not let me know and I'll post it on the humour thread.

As for 'brown bagging' - sounds extremely rude to me...!!

Trilby · 10-31-2005, 09:10 AM

yes, it's regional. We don't say it much in Ohio. Like this:
officeWorker #1---"what's for lunch?"
officeWorker#2---"Oh, I packed."
oW#1---"I want Skyline."
oW#2---"Me, too. Let's go!" (throws packed lunch out, or, saves it for tomorrow, or, most likely, some 2nd shift worker finds abandoned lunch and eats it at 11pm and no one is the wiser.)

mrnoodle · 10-31-2005, 09:54 AM

"More fun than a barrel of monkeys" -- seems to me that just about anything is more fun than that. They're either dead, which is just gross, or they're alive, which is creepy.

Also got schooled recently on the "spittin image" term. It's not spitting image, it's a contraction of spirit and image. "That girl is the spirit and image of her mother," means the two are alike in both appearance and action.

What about various fuck-related curses? Are they just ways of using the word creatively, or do they mean something? "I don't give a flying fuck", "well fuck me running", "fuckin-A". Like, WTF do they mean?

Oh yeah. My mom had a good one -- "Well, you look like the morning after the night before." Hangover euphemism. Funnier if it's said with a particular inflection.

jinx · 10-31-2005, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by mrnoodle

What about various fuck-related curses? Are they just ways of using the word creatively, or do they mean something? "I don't give a flying fuck", "well fuck me running", "fuckin-A". Like, WTF do they mean?

Fuck if I know , but my favorite is "oh, for fuck sake!"

xoxoxoBruce · 10-31-2005, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by jinx

Fuck if I know , but my favorite is "oh, for fuck sake!"

Or an airborne attempt of actual intercourse at a perambulating perforated piece of pastry.

More simply... A flying fuck at a rolling donut.

Sundae · 10-31-2005, 10:01 AM

Cheers for the spitting image explanation, never heard that before.
A guy I knew used to say "Just like the spit from his/ her mouth" to indicate resemblance..... I didn't like to think too hard about that one.

My Mum says burnt to buggery, bored to buggery, hurts like buggery. I'm worried to ask her about personal experience.

wolf · 10-31-2005, 10:05 AM

"Brown Bagging" has fallen out of use because hardly anyone has the brown bags anymore ... There used to be two ways you got lunchbags. One was that you bought a batch of them at the grocery store. The other was that you purchased small items at a grocery or variety store and they were given to you in the small brown bag that just happens to be the right size for a lunch.

Well ...

Stores don't use those brown bags anymore, you get plastic. And the supermarkets only have the full-size brown bags, and they hide them under the cash registers. You have to ask for them special ("Can you bag me paper in plastic?") It doesn't make the plastic bag any stronger, that's what double bagging is for, but the traditional brown bags do keep your stuff standing up straighter, and the bread doesn't get squished.

Anyway.

If you take your lunch to school or work or whatever these days, you usually have some kind of special vinyl lunch bag to take it in.

Mine has the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on it, but only because I couldn't find a Star Wars or a SpongeBob. I actually have trouble cramming stuff in there sometimes (grown up dinners are bigger than kid lunches) so I've lately been using a gift bag. That has Star Wars on it, so it's all good.

Cyclefrance · 10-31-2005, 10:13 AM

I think I got muddled between 'brown-bagging' and a 'double-bagger' which is a rather unkind way to describe an unattractive lady - dangerous territory I'm entering here so I'll stop immediately (no double-entendre meant, but can see how that thought might arise....)

10-31-2005, 08:08 AM	#4
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	i never hear 'fortnight' used here in my little part of the US. EVER. We say, "coupla weeks." We slurr a lot (and not because we're drunk--well, some of us are of course), but it's mainly laziness. Now: is a bacon cob like a bacon sandwich? Or, is it bacon baked into the cob? Like a frittata? __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

10-31-2005, 08:32 AM	#6
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	We say, "Did you pack?" meaning, bring your own lunch. In New Jersey I think it means "did you bring your gun?" If you were to say "pack up" to me I would think it meant you were moving. Why is English cheese so complicated? And, what is Wensleydale and why can't I find it over here? __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

10-31-2005, 09:41 AM	#8
Cyclefrance Pump my ride! Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Deep countryside of Surrey , England Posts: 1,890	Stop it you two - all this talk of food is making me hungry. Presume you know the Englishman, Scotsman, Irishman sandwich joke - if not let me know and I'll post it on the humour thread. As for 'brown bagging' - sounds extremely rude to me...!! __________________ Always sufficient hills - never sufficient gears

10-31-2005, 09:10 AM	#9
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	yes, it's regional. We don't say it much in Ohio. Like this: officeWorker #1---"what's for lunch?" officeWorker#2---"Oh, I packed." oW#1---"I want Skyline." oW#2---"Me, too. Let's go!" (throws packed lunch out, or, saves it for tomorrow, or, most likely, some 2nd shift worker finds abandoned lunch and eats it at 11pm and no one is the wiser.) __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

10-31-2005, 09:54 AM	#10
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	"More fun than a barrel of monkeys" -- seems to me that just about anything is more fun than that. They're either dead, which is just gross, or they're alive, which is creepy. Also got schooled recently on the "spittin image" term. It's not spitting image, it's a contraction of spirit and image. "That girl is the spirit and image of her mother," means the two are alike in both appearance and action. What about various fuck-related curses? Are they just ways of using the word creatively, or do they mean something? "I don't give a flying fuck", "well fuck me running", "fuckin-A". Like, WTF do they mean? Oh yeah. My mom had a good one -- "Well, you look like the morning after the night before." Hangover euphemism. Funnier if it's said with a particular inflection. __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh

10-31-2005, 07:50 AM	#1
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	A cob is officially a crusty bread roll here, although its used generically for any type of bread roll. Its an alien word to me, as in the South a cob is a small horse. I felt really embarrassed the first few times I said "Bacon cob please" but got used to it when I took a Saturday job in a bakers. You can also say that someone "has a cob on" which is never taken as wearing a bread roll - it means in a bad mood. Other local sayings include "mardy" for grumpy or bad tempered and "nesh" for soft (as in not hardy). Is it true that fortnight for 2 weeks isn't generally in use in the US?

10-31-2005, 08:25 AM	#5
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	A bacon cob is like a sandwich. But a cheese cob can mean a cob filled with cheese, or a soft white cheese topped roll (very greasy, not very nice). In fact cheese is complicated all round, because they have cheese mix as a filling (cheese, mayo, spring onion) and tuna-cheese mix (tuna, mayo, cheese, onion). I made my own sandwiches for a few months when I moved here! (which I call a packed lunch, and everyone else calls a pack-up). Perhaps people should stay where they were born.....?

10-31-2005, 08:59 AM	#7
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	I'll start a cheese thread & answer you there Is the term "brown bagging it" regional? I've certainly read it somewhere.....

10-31-2005, 10:01 AM	#13
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Cheers for the spitting image explanation, never heard that before. A guy I knew used to say "Just like the spit from his/ her mouth" to indicate resemblance..... I didn't like to think too hard about that one. My Mum says burnt to buggery, bored to buggery, hurts like buggery. I'm worried to ask her about personal experience.

10-31-2005, 10:05 AM	#14
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	"Brown Bagging" has fallen out of use because hardly anyone has the brown bags anymore ... There used to be two ways you got lunchbags. One was that you bought a batch of them at the grocery store. The other was that you purchased small items at a grocery or variety store and they were given to you in the small brown bag that just happens to be the right size for a lunch. Well ... Stores don't use those brown bags anymore, you get plastic. And the supermarkets only have the full-size brown bags, and they hide them under the cash registers. You have to ask for them special ("Can you bag me paper in plastic?") It doesn't make the plastic bag any stronger, that's what double bagging is for, but the traditional brown bags do keep your stuff standing up straighter, and the bread doesn't get squished. Anyway. If you take your lunch to school or work or whatever these days, you usually have some kind of special vinyl lunch bag to take it in. Mine has the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on it, but only because I couldn't find a Star Wars or a SpongeBob. I actually have trouble cramming stuff in there sometimes (grown up dinners are bigger than kid lunches) so I've lately been using a gift bag. That has Star Wars on it, so it's all good. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

10-31-2005, 10:13 AM	#15
Cyclefrance Pump my ride! Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Deep countryside of Surrey , England Posts: 1,890	I think I got muddled between 'brown-bagging' and a 'double-bagger' which is a rather unkind way to describe an unattractive lady - dangerous territory I'm entering here so I'll stop immediately (no double-entendre meant, but can see how that thought might arise....) __________________ Always sufficient hills - never sufficient gears

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