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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.
I misread at first and thought you meant "The Mask" and couldn't quite marry your description with the frenetic and irritating Jim Carey. But yes, "Mask" is a lovely film.
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Hmmm. I've never seen it -- maybe something to look for during the holiday break!
I love that movie. Oh Sam Elliot, I love him in this ;o).
Doesn't matter how manny times I watch 'Mask' ... I always cry.
Hugs,
Joy :o)
I misread at first and thought you meant "The Mask" and couldn't quite marry your description with the frenetic and irritating Jim Carey. But yes, "Mask" is a lovely film.
I too thought - Sam Elliott? Surely Jim Carey!!!lol! Have not seen this film, but i do love Sam!!!
xx
Sam Elliott! Amen sister!!!
Oh my Gawd. I LOVE that film. I'm always in pieces at the end though and usually fall asleep.
Eric Stoltz. That's all I'm saying.
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