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 November 2010

Based on past experience I knew it was coming one day.

"I don't get it." Said d/Boy while watching the lastest Bodyform ads.



"Don't get what?" I asked (thinking please let him be referring to the rapidly changing styles of undies being flashed up on screen.)


"What those things they are advertising are actually for?"


(Bugger! Wasn't expecting to have to answer this at 4:30 on a Monday afternoon.)
So explained the whole thing to him.
"And this happens to you?"
"Yes."
"Hmmm .... 'K."

9 comments:

peskypixies said...

ROFL!!!!

ange_moore said...

For years my brother thought that the ads were for shoe liners - because the women were always running around and looking energetic!

Very funny - thanks for sharing.

Mary said...

That's a good conversation to get out of the way!

Nonblogger said...

and another one bites the dust! That boy has got some cool questions! I love it!

dottycookie said...

Oh, I feel for you!

Gina said...

I'm not sure how I got away with not having to answer that one having brought up four boys... there were plenty of other awkward questions though.

Calidore said...

At least you explained it to your son. My MIL didn't tell my husband anything - it was up to me to "educate" him...sigh. I'm so sending James to you when he comes up with those questions...roflmol.

our shabby cottage said...

Yep, I'm waiting for that one too....everytime a tampon ad comes on the telly.

Stomper Girl said...

Did you end it with "just be glad it doesn't happen to you you lucky lucky..."