h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

... and you got the 1000th !!

Ooh, no. 1000 - that was a bit of roast duck (as a cockney friend loves to say)!

Deni, somehow I didn't realise I was supposed to respond, so sorry if my reply was a bit of a dog.

I think we should have a party. Pheroneous, the chocs are on you!

Since, K, you spurned my Prestat truffles in another place, I shall settle for a big creamy chocolate sponge cake, sheathed in a chocolate coat and topped with sugar threads. (As in Sugar! What a thread!)

There should be a guide entry for the slang used in WW2 films, IMHO.

Chocks away = here we go. The little triangles of wood used to stop the planes rolling forward when the engine was started are chocks - and once removed the airplane can taxi along.

Cabbage crates = Bombers ... no idea why

Bought it/Bought the farm - Was killed.

What else?
*thinks..., all the while whispering the great escape*

Whistling, DJ, surely!

Got that Hun in a hail of ack-ack!... or something...

Pheroneous, truffles *and* cake please. Prestat and poststat, just for good measure!

Have a nice weekend, everyone!

The great escape...

Starts digging under the horse (vaulting) after grabbing a uniform from the horse (clothes) while watching for guards on horses (equine).

...where the dust in the tunnel made him hoarse...

A local (Dublin or Ireland?) greeting is "How are you, horse?" which isn't derogatory and doesn't seem to mean much at all...

one i have heard is how are you,old chum.always reminds me of shark bait

1920's again - 'How are you, old horse?', and going back to the WWII topic, 'gone west','jerry can','flak'.
I am probably being obtuse, but why does 'old chum' remind you of shark bait?

ive never heard of chuming for anything other than shark.and im atalose as to the words freindly use.is it perhaps military in orgin?that might explain it somewhat.cant think of friends as bait

If anyone happens to know any Hollywood producers could they point them in the direction of this thread. I mean, it's bad enough having a film called "Free Willy"...but "Snatch", honestly - these people don't know the world around them .

I guess most people in "Tinsel Town" don't know much about the real world - they probably think what they read in screen plays IS the real world!

On the horsey theme, I went with a friend to a dressage competition yesterday, and there's loads of jargon and strange use of english.
I found out that horses have feathers, for instance

Sure - but most other international companies spend stupidly large sums of money to make sure that their brand names work in other languages - which is why "Esso" became "Exxon" etc.

If you think British dogs are bad, you should hear about Aussie Hell. It can be hot as hell, cold as hell, windy as hell, wet as hell, dry as hell,...

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JOTD: I came, I saw, I deleted all your files.

It can be tricky, serious, deep, holy, scared and crazy...and in some cases it can be good.

Some companies don't check what translations would be very well, which is why Novas weren't selling well in Latin America

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JOTD: I came, I saw, I deleted all your files.

And s**t is a slang name for a drug in Britain. I forget which one because I'm not an expert on that sort of thing (!) but I remember hearing it somewhere.

That's not exclusive to Britain. I'm sure they use it in Pulp Fiction