TrashCan: Weird small world

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.

Saturday, 28 August 2010

Weird small world

As a family we like to watch 'Tonight's the Night' on Saturday night.

Not only to enjoy the heartwarming stories and John Barrowman's corny lead-ins but to massively take the rip from the over-the-top performances, dodgey clothing of superstars, 'expertly critique' the performances of West End dancers and other such activities as may lead to familial hysteria before bedtime.

Imagine my surprise tonight when a 'face' was pulled from the crowd to be sung at by John Barrowman and it turned out to belong to a man I used to work with!

Princess C-W and destructoBoy were beside themselves with laughter.

3 comments:

peskypixies said...: now all i can hear is:
Its a small world after all
Its a small world after all
Its a small world after all.

Ive got a luverly bunch of coconuts....tum de tum.

mmmmmmmm spent too much time watching kids movies!!!!

its a small small world!!!!!; 29 August 2010 3:07 am
wonderwoman said...: ditto the above, not gonna get that out of my head all day now!! But what hoot!!

xx; 29 August 2010 11:51 am
lauren said...: john barrowman involved in an enterprise which can even tangentially be described as "corny"??!?!? SURELY NOT!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :); 4 September 2010 2:00 pm