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Leo Posted Aug 6, 2004
er... what's that? (I meant idiom, not oxymoron.)
PS: can someone explain to me this local obsession with badgers?
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intelligent moose (the one true H2G2 Moose) Posted Aug 9, 2004
Think that may have just been a wave to me
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(if you're actually writing this up or anything as part of a project, hope you've realised not to use my entries... I'd feel totally guilty)
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Mu Beta Posted Aug 9, 2004
The same, somewhat bizarrely, is true in Gloucester. 'Yer Mother' is regularly enough to start a good fight.
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Mu Beta Posted Aug 9, 2004
Three years and I still reply to stuff on the bottom of Page 1.
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Mu Beta Posted Aug 9, 2004
"PS: can someone explain to me this local obsession with badgers?"
Turn your sound on and try http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Aug 9, 2004
'Yer mum' can have the same effect in Derbyshire/Staffordshire.
I think it's shorthand for 'your mother wears army boots/is a whore/shags sailors/gives blowjobs behind the pub.'
On a different theme
'bugger that/this for a game of soldiers'.
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Mu Beta Posted Aug 10, 2004
I've never really understood the link between buggery and soldiers. I'm sure Pete could explain. 
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Aug 10, 2004
Well, bugger that/blow that/sod that are all freely exchangable in the said phrase. Not that any of them sound less dirty, of course.
And Pete was lovely an' innocent. Until he met me.
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Mu Beta Posted Aug 10, 2004
I find it extremely hard to believe that either of you is or was more unsulliable than the other.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Aug 10, 2004
I'm not convinced that 'unsulliable' is a word, but since my dictionary is at work I shall have to SET it until tomorrow.
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Artisan Posted Aug 10, 2004
"I'll take my hand off your face my lad!"
was one I found to be of some amusement.
Tame and unthreatening as it seems when taken literally,during a show on televisision Billy Connolly(Scottish comedian) hastily added,"It was the putting on at high speed I did not fancy!" 
I'm in total agreement there.
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The Groob Posted Nov 28, 2004
'and then he turned round and said...and then I turned round and said'
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You can call me TC Posted Nov 29, 2004
Somewhere I read that people used that expression during the Plague when, due to risk of infection, people were told to talk to each other standing back to back. If a point had to be made with some emphasis, one would turn round and say it to the other person's face.
This explanation, however, becomes more and more improbable each time I think about it.
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Nov 30, 2004
I've never heard of it - what does it mean?
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I am Donald Sutherland Posted Nov 30, 2004
"Are you trying to wipe my eye" when being told something of doubtful veracity. Hence the expression, "It's a load of eyewash" when hearing the same story from a third party.
Similar to pull the wool over someones eye meaning to fool them with a porky pie. Pork pie = lie. Often shortened to just telling porkies.
Donald
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