From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V2 #226 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Wednesday, October 22 1997 Volume 02 : Number 226 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Who was that aging hippy with the vulgar slang! [Frank ] Re: Alloy: Names to faces. [Keith Stansell ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 19:49:28 -0700 From: Frank Subject: Re: Alloy: Who was that aging hippy with the vulgar slang! At 07:09 PM 10/21/97 -0700, you wrote: > >My Webster's defines "bollock" as >1 [Vulgar] - testicles. In my youth the height of vulgarity was in saying "Tess Tickles", to which the reply was "Her does". And everybody snickered. But then I am 73. Hope you all reach it. Ha! Two years after I was born Carlotta died in Europe. And now that's a bit of historic past. She slowly went mad after the murder of her husband, Maximilian. And so the world goes on. Frank >2 [Slang] - nonsense. >3 [Vulgar Slang] - an exclamation expressing anger, disbelief, etc. > >So I ask, is that the same as saying "b.s." in the USA? And are these the >same bollocks made famous in the Sex Pistols' album title. > >tee hee hee, > >-- >Elaine Linstruth Palmdale, CA (USA) > >> >'Pillock' is an English expression, a more polite form of bollock, but in >> >this context it's used to mean foolish fellow. One wouldn't call someone a >> >bollock ...... a bollock BRAIN, yes, but not a bollock. However, one could >> >refer to someone as a pillock. It's a derogatory term usually used between >> >friends, am I right Croydon, Mr Leacy (and any other Britishers >> here-present)? > >> bollock? Unknown by Mr. Webster. I'm still in the dark. Frank Ha! > > Friend, tell me more about your Webster's. You have an unabridged edition or the one from 1913 or are you in a purely English (Jolly) Edition? I could not locate it. Half of my life ends in failures in Websters's or Yahoo. and/or. Frank My Web Sites http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/6745/index.html http://members.tripod.com/~WheelerF/index.html Home (Page) Improvement!! Remember, I'm just a kid in the candy store. Little by little I'm getting there. Join me on the ride. Frank ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 22:31:26 -0700 From: Keith Stansell Subject: Re: Alloy: Let's have a party! Slarv, I've got tears coming out of my eyes I'm laughing so hard. This is one to be printed out and put on the wall! Perhaps I'll have to learn how to play some type of instrument or Beatnik and do this for the birthday project next year! - -Keith - Across from the Wynkoopeeeeeee----> http://www.wynkoop.com __________________________________________________ http://www.concentric.net/~kasman Slarvibargowitz wrote: > HA! Keith WAS the sole inhabitant .... but now he isn't. > > Thomas, can you accomodate this in a rewrite? If not, I'm sure > Crackers > could handle it, it's right up his street. > > Hell, why not have a go myself....... > > "Keith WAS the sole inhabitant > Keith WAS the sole inhabitant > Keith woke beside the brewery > from his dreams of Alexander > Far from the rip-off of those minibars that keep chucking up Boddies* > It turned into the kind of session that plays hell with your > tummeeeeee. > Wynkoopeeeeeee > Wynkoopeeeeeee" > > "Keith drank a pint of Boddies > Keith drank a pint of Boddies > Keith built a pile of beer cans > Shape of his friend, that Dennis man > Where he could hide from young Oasis fans who would trample his > trainers > A thin white Spice Girl spilled his drink as he crawled > into the Wynkoopeeeeeee > Wynkoopeeeeeee > Wynkoopeeeeeee" > > "So - are you plastered > With this brew that you created > Should have know you'd never rest > Till we're all inebriated > and you fail that ol' breath test." > > HA! Easy peasy lemon squeezy, though I'm not sure that the 'Spice > Girl' > line scans correctly. > > BTW *'Boddies' is Mancunain for Boddington's Bittter, a jolly fine > brew, I > don't mind telling you. > > Weird Al Slarvibargowitz ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 22:58:53 -0700 From: Keith Stansell Subject: Re: Alloy: Names to faces. John Schofield wrote: > ... We all know what TMDR looks like (although I thought he was > looking a little > more bohemian than I expected) Well, with the beret and goatee, you could almost say he looks like a... beatnik - coincidence? I think not! Keith Stansell Denver, CO __________________________________________________ http://www.concentric.net/~kasman <---Photo available here. Speaking in alphanumerals.John Schofield wrote: ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V2 #226 ***************************