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

I'm bloody pinned to the floor by my own laughter.

After dinner, my mother wanted me to remove this thing from her arm, and she asked for my help, calling me Boobie.

"Boobie!??" I laughed. "What!?? Why you calling me Boobie!??"

She said that British people do it all the time in movies.

Really!??

Are you sure that it wasn't because you had your boobie on her arm

Or perhaps she just went all Jewish for a moment and called you bubby - short for bubela

Don't know what movies your ma-ma watches, but as a habitant of afore mentioned isles, I never called anyone a boobie and I never seen anyone called a boobie in the movies. The only boobies I know are the ones that clatter about our house - and those that are involved in childcare.

Uh...yeah...OK... (starts backing away slowly)

me thinks ...
your mother needs David Letterman to translate from Brittish English to American English. David should know, because he studied British English and concluded that is very different English.

Jeremy?

Hilary?

Boob?

Phd.

All: Eh?

YAY!!!! sgt

Well.... I think... no, I know, that my mother's losing her mind. I think calling me Boobie was a strange Freudian slip and she used the Brits as a cop-out. She would have been safer using some other world population, but no.



Or maybe she was drunk.

Well, Julie Andrews is British, isn't she?
In the film "S.O.B.," she got drunk and then talked about exposing her "boobies," but I don't think she was drunk enough to mistake her boobies for people. But then, I don't know for sure.

You like Julie Andrews quite a bit, Pauly....

Oh and Gosho... Mom wasn't calling me Boobie because my breast was on her arm. Not a chance. I'm not nearly that big. Silly!!!!

Oh.... parents are forcing me to attend the daft graduation ceremony, in which it takes twenty minutes just for all of the candidates for graduation to take part in the procession. Mad. Two hour ceremony alltogether, and you don't even get that piece of paper that says you have graduated...

Anyway, boobie is just as much an American word as an English one... maybe more! I think in the UK people are more likely to just say 'boob'. And I'm thinking of that episode of Family Guy where the Griffins go to have dinner with a family of nudists, and on the way home Chris sits in the back of the car saying 'boobies' every ten seconds

Funny old world...

I thought boobies were some sort of bird in tropical places. Like the english

...Sounds about right....

I'm being forced to graduation too D. Whereas with ours, you have to preorder photos which may or may not be rubbish

You also have to be there two hours early... half 7am?

Well, there's the old saying (as old as Rocky and Bullwinkle, that is ): Don't count your boobies until they're hatched.

I couldn't attend my college graduation because I was out of the country at the time.

Yes, Dragonfly, I like Julie Andrews a lot. Blake Edwards is a lucky man!

OH MY LORD!!!!

I'm sorry...

At least there isn't a photo issue...

I got my class ring on Tuesday, but I am pretty sure they fouled it up. The side that says "BA" should have the English side under it.... but it has the History side under it... so the side I want to see all the time, the English side, has the year 2004 above it. That can't be right... I'll call them.

Blah.

Oh well, Sgt... we'll survive the dern ceremony... when is yours!??

(I'm just pissed off because I could be taking one of two roadtrips I quite want to take!!!! Instead, I'll be at finals on Wed and then the next Tuesday, have to bother with graduation. And I'm off work... so I can focus on the freelance stuff... ::sigh:

Mine's 01/07 Which is also a pain... Oh well.

My brother's certificate got issued the first time from the Medicine Department. Even though he did Engineering

Doctors, engineers, they all do pretty muich the same thing, don't they?

may be your mother saw episode of 'allo 'allo, a British sitcom about cafe and its owner in world war 2. one of charracters is English spy who works undercover as French police man his French is boobie.