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(The not-so-secret diary of life and stuff in a hilltop town)
Trash Towers Dictionary
a/c - art crap. CK's fond term for the means of assuaging my addictions.
BSD - Been Seen Done. Devised while travelling the Great Ocean Road on CK's first Australian trip. Every lookout point was as fabulous as the previous and we got a little bit magnificenced out so rather than pull in we would shout BSD and keep driving.
Now general usage for when a situation is over or beyond repair.
bob - noun. Princess Curly- Wurly's word meaning all sweets, chocolate and yummy things.
blurry - (pr. to rhyme with hurry) Sth African/Zimbabwean term and my favourite polite swearword. Means kind of like bloody but usuable in mixed company. See 'Feck' & 'Eejit'
eejit - Irish term meaning 'idiot'. Suitable for use in polite company. Used by my Aunt Marion.
feck - Irish term used by my Aunt Marion so it cannot be rude!
ho-ho -(pr. with a short o). Zimbabwean word for bugs.
lani - (sp?) Sthn African word - means posh, expensive, elegant, stylish.
La Villa de Lamaca - (translates from Ital. as The houseof snails. My 'green' house out in the garden with all my a/c (ref: above) stuff in it. Built by CK and Babyman for me. CK lost his fingerprints over it. I cannot actually get in there at the moment!
lubbard - derived from 'beloved'. Devised by my then two y.o. son b/c unlike his sister he could not say 'Mother Beloved'. Usually prefaced by a noun.
OfStEd - Office for Standards in Education. Bossy civil servants who would like to see every child in formal, full-time education from birth.
Q.I. - Quite interesting.
terence - sobriquet applicable to all small children. Originated with one 'borrowed' child who could not pronounce ' terrorist' .
TG - exclamation. Thank God! An interesting choice for the dictionary of a recovering Catholic but is a phrase used by my Irish family and is now deeply fixed in my conversational repetoire. (reference also PG - Please God).
TGTH - The Great Trip Home. Alt. known as 'How I spent Christmas and N.Y 2008.
Sunday, 21 September 2008
Is it just me or has anyone else noticed???
You never see John Seargent and Jo Brand in the same room at the same time.
Oh my God! We had this exact discussion over the roast lamb dinner at my mum's house this very lunchtime! How weird is that? (The coincidence, not the Jo Brand/John Sergeant thing).
I've commented on this several times before, only for people to look at me like I'm derranged. Glad it's not just me! (that sees the similarity, not the mental bit)
I remember dressing as a pumpkin one Hallowe'en complete with spikey green hair. Somehow I transformed into Ms Brand before my very eyes!! Scary indeed :{
Yes! I feel vindicated! I've been saying that for years but when I try to tell people, I always forget his name and end up saying things like "you know, he was on the steps in front of Margaret Thatcher that time" and usual rubbish like that!
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12 comments:
Oh my God! We had this exact discussion over the roast lamb dinner at my mum's house this very lunchtime! How weird is that? (The coincidence, not the Jo Brand/John Sergeant thing).
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You've just made me startle poor Mr Locket with my snort of laughter! Very well-observed Mrs T!
I've commented on this several times before, only for people to look at me like I'm derranged. Glad it's not just me! (that sees the similarity, not the mental bit)
It's not just me then?...
lol
You are wicked... but now you mention it!
Ooh ooh! I thought exactly the same thing when I was watching Strictly too!!
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well its not just you - em's just said to me that she heard someone talking about that the other day!!!
Quite uncanny!
I remember dressing as a pumpkin one Hallowe'en complete with spikey green hair. Somehow I transformed into Ms Brand before my very eyes!! Scary indeed :{
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Now that's hilarious !! D'you think they are one of the same ?
Really cheered my Man Flu up - thanks trash :)
Yes! I feel vindicated! I've been saying that for years but when I try to tell people, I always forget his name and end up saying things like "you know, he was on the steps in front of Margaret Thatcher that time" and usual rubbish like that!
Ha! You may be onto something.
I was very glad John Seargeant didn't get kicked off Strictly Come Dancing though. He's such a jolly chap.
this made me laugh out loud...
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