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.









Monday, 1 December 2008

I knew I had seen that face before!

One of the things I love about blogging is the perception of those in Blogland. You people must really be eating your Weeties because you are all as smart as whips!




In the comments of the previous post Jan pointed out that Evil Genius Pattern Monkey is in fact a doppelganger





for an international politician of some many years standing.





What? You don't recognise him?



He was an international staesman for over (nearly?) 14 years.



Hmmmm....... still no bells?


Errrr..... he got the post through staying power and determination (makes Gordon Brown look like a beginner).

Really? You still can't put a name to the face? Surely some of you voted for him at each of the 712 elections he stood in.


Well, okay. To lessen the dramatic tension for all those hyped-up, non-Australians reading I'll tell you.

He is Little Johnny Arthur, former nemesis of Bob Hawke and Paul Keating. Most recently unelected Australian Prime Minister. And twin to the Evil Genius Pattern Monkey.


Bwahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Also Jan is a brand new blogger so go spread the bloggy love.

17 comments:

Jo in Tas said...

ROFL! Monkey has to be called Little Johnny after seeing that!!

Stomper Girl said...

err. we usually call him little johnny howard ovah heah...

but you're right there is a striking resemblance

tales from an O.C. cottage said...

Tooooooooooooo funny!!

M ^..^

Erika said...

What an interesting thing, Not too long ago maybe a couple of months this most recognizable politician visit our lands and my hubby had the chance to meet him and he even has a pic with him... the things you lern on the web... mmmh
Erika

sharon said...

You could have put a warning at the top of that post Trashy. I won't be able to check your blog again without a tiny shiver down my spine just in case you add another picture of little Johnny. Oh, the horror!

But the likeness is amazing ;-)

Joy said...

Uncanny!!!! That's hilarious!!! Thanks for the giggle :o).
Hugs,
Joy :o)

PS... I now know not to read your blog while slurping my coffee ... nearly spat it at the 'puter when I saw the piccy ... how funny :)

Katy said...

of course, I recognise that well known face...sorry, who was it? what's his name again?

Kitty said...

I think the monkey looks more appealing. x

Lucy Locket-Pocket said...

But he looks quite a sweetie! I'm guessing from everyone's reactions that he's not though!

Locket xxx

Leanne said...

Oh the evil monkey is much cuter than little Johnny.

Rhiannon said...

super spooky... stil want an evil monkey though!

Bronwyn said...

OMG the resemblance is uncanny! Better not show this post to my dad - he would be spitting out his tea! Hehe!

PolarBearCreations said...

Brilliant! :0)

georgie said...

stoppin by to say Merry SITSmas

Working Mom Knits said...

Are you not afraid you may be making that looooooong flight only to be stopped at the airport and sent back to the UK?
*listening for the sound of your passport profile being "red flagged"*

lauren said...

what i'd like to know is: does said antipodean politico also have a white spot on his tummy??!?! parliamentarian historians long to know!!! perhaps you can find out on TGTH if CK is ok with that??! ...in a completely platonic and non-ill-making way, obviously...

(ok, no, i don't know how that'd EVER be non-ill-making...sorry...nevermind...) :>]

Moogsmum said...

Me... I know nothing....I thought it was Bob Hawke ...although I couldn't remember Bob's name...or, in fact, what he looks like...evidently!!

Got to pop and see what Jan is up to on her blog.
xxx