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Location: NJ | After hanging out with Paul Templeman for the weekend I learned the following vocabulary:
pounds
quid
pissed
lift
fag
bollocks
flat
tubes
arse
and my favorite
rat arsed
the best phrase has to go to when he descibed a certain breed of dogs as being
"a waste of fur"
thanks for the lesson Paul |
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Location: Scotland | Al, you're welcome. It's a good job I was on my best behaviour and relatively sober (i.e. not rat-arsed) or you may have needed an interpreter. I feel slightly embarrassed that most of those words are to do with drinking and/or bodily functions.
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Location: NJ | Paul
I forgot a few more:
lorrie
boot
bonnet |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | You also forgot
fumblmibbleshwit
arrghufunsabun
erah
to name a few.... or was I not supposed to repeat those... |
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Location: NJ | Paul
you still have a long way to go before you reach the drinking status of shane macgowan or the mumbles of the gallagher brothers |
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Location: NJ | My all-out FAVORITE "Templeman-ism" is as follows (and I sincerly hope that Paul doesn't mind me recounting this for him, but those who weren't in the bar late Thurs. nite/Fri. morning really missed out on his retelling of an absolutely hillarious GEM!!):
So, . . . Master Templeman is on one of the MULTIPLE flights needed to make his Trans-Atlantic sojourn to CT. He's asleep in his seat with the remains of his in-flight meal on the seat-back tray in front of him. The flight attendant comes by to clear away the rubbish and evidently stirs him in the process. Paul awakens to find this woman's face in his and she asks:
"..Trash?..."
Paul responds, "..Yes,...but I have Middle Class aspirations!!..."
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Location: 6 String Ranch | As an American one should never try to out talk a Brit. They will beat you every time with fewer words. We should keep in mind that they do have an unfair advantage having invented the language. And we musn't forget the Italians at the other end of the specturm that keep talking till they hear what they want to say. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It seems that you didn't get into explaining the Cockney Rhyming Slang? I didn't see words like Berk or Hampton on that list. Pity that. |
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Location: NJ | Paul also told a great story about how the cities in the UK aren't good for writing songs.
some other words:
poofter
twit
wanker |
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Location: Scotland | A friend of mine, who is currently playing guitar with Belinda Carlisle, wrote a parody of "Route 66" based on the road that cuts across the north of England between Teeside & The Lake District, which is called, coincidentally, the A66. While Route 66 has evocative, exciting names like Kingman, Barstow & San Bernadino, the A66 has Hutton Magma, Brough & Penrith. Cole Porter would have had a hard time with those. When it comes to UK place names, British songwriters are screwed. "I left my heart in Milton Keynes" I think not.
Bill, I thought it inappropriate to explain the origins of "berk", but you've lost me on "Hampton"
Al, I agree, the Gallaghers are drunken yobs. Mcgowan by contast is at least capable of writing great songs. "A Pair Of Brown Eyes" is a classic.
Rock 'n' Roll must be the only career where you can turn up for work full of drugs & alcohol & not get fired. |
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Location: Scotland | Oh yeah........"Hampton Wick" Slight language problem, I'm a Geordie, not a Cockney.
Isn't the internet a wonderful thing? For your edification, my American bretheren, I did a google search on "Cockney Rhyming Slang" and found an online dictionary.
http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/
You'll find "Berk" in there. Enjoy |
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Location: NJ | Paul
Stonge called me today and I used "bollocks" twice in the conversation.....what the hell is happening to me? |
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Location: Scotland | Adopts sinister mad scientist accent & rubs hands together, "Soooo, my plan is working........." |
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Two great Nations divided by a common language