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Dave W · December 12, 2009, 04:40:37 PM

Quote from: Kenny Five-O on December 12, 2009, 01:31:45 PM
to show the boffins at the Custom Shop the error of their ways...

boffin, that's a new one on me. Had to look up zimmer frame a few weeks ago too.

Highlander · December 12, 2009, 05:06:40 PM

Good old colloquial English...

Most Americans will have no idea what B*LL*CKS means, either, but there is reputedly an expat Brit driving around California with that as a car reg number... that and W*NK*R...

OldManC · December 12, 2009, 05:48:27 PM

Some don't even give a monkey's what English terms they know!

And Ken, I got a very nice package in the post today. I was right chuffed (gotta be careful where I use that term, as well - I can't remember what local town it was but in one area I was in up North that didn't just mean happy)! Anyway, thank you very much. My kids will be getting a nice surprise tonight. Yeah, I'll have to share...

Rhythm N. Bliss · December 15, 2009, 03:39:17 PM

Quote from: SKATE RAT on December 10, 2009, 08:31:01 PM
this is an SGZ.late 90's early 00's

How 'bout an SGV? SG horns with V wings??

angrymatt · December 15, 2009, 04:26:43 PM

Quote from: Rhythm N. Bliss on December 15, 2009, 03:39:17 PM
How 'bout an SGV? SG horns with V wings??

Like that awful Zack Wylde Epiphone thing?

uwe · December 16, 2009, 02:18:11 AM

Yup, I think that is an acquired taste too. Very acquired.

exiledarchangel · December 16, 2009, 03:56:51 AM

Acquired taste is a very gently description for an SGV.

Denis · December 16, 2009, 06:47:29 AM

Quote from: Dave W on December 12, 2009, 04:40:37 PM
boffin, that's a new one on me. Had to look up zimmer frame a few weeks ago too.

Aren't Boffins related to the Bagginses?

Highlander · December 16, 2009, 04:24:47 PM

Quote from: OldManC on December 12, 2009, 05:48:27 PM
My kids will be getting a nice surprise tonight. Yeah, I'll have to share...

You and the kids are more than welcome... let me know if you need "emergency" supplies - hope they were as good as the memory was... I owe your kindness much more than that little treat...

Oh yeah, I presume you meant something like "chuff-pipe..."

I know a UK someone that went into a busy Ft Lauderdale bar and asked for some change for the "fag machine..."

Apparently, you could have heard a pin drop...

Denis... the Boffinses always waxed their feet...

Pilgrim · December 16, 2009, 04:57:04 PM

Quote from: Denis on December 16, 2009, 06:47:29 AM
Aren't Boffins related to the Bagginses?

Nope, Proudfeet.

godofthunder · December 16, 2009, 04:59:31 PM

Back in the 70's my folks had some friends from the UK stay with us, we all went out one evening and the male friend (can't remember his name) while sitting at the bar said "man I could go for a fag"

I only knew what he was talking about as I had read Ian Hunters Diary of a R&R star

copacetic · December 16, 2009, 05:38:51 PM

Are you sure he wasn't looking at you and said "Man I could go for a shag?"

uwe · December 17, 2009, 12:38:30 AM

Being British, he wanted to shag a fag and then talk himself out of it! Those boarding school excesses wreak havoc on regular male sexual orientation, I tell you!

eb2 · December 17, 2009, 01:13:36 AM

They do put on a hell of a parade though.

Basvarken · December 17, 2009, 02:17:32 AM

Always a bit awkward when a Dutch guy asks a British girl if she wants a shag.

It's tobacco...

And for some reason most tourists seem to think you get really high from this stuff.
Very funny when people from abroad start acting as if they're really stoned from a plain self rolled tobacco sigarette.