Chiches you want to bitch slap.

[EscapingDelusion]

[Cyberman]

[Gambit]

Damn, I should have got slippy, seeing as how we use the same word in the same context, here. FYI, though, if you look up "Babushk©a", it also means grandmother; a young girl, who acts like a grandmother, or, as mentioned, a scarf. I believe the scarf is named so because it is typically worn by older ladies/grandmothers. Also, pigs in a blanket is a collective name for a dish consisting of sausage meat wrapped in bacon, cabbage, seaweed and a few other things, depending on the country. However, I didn't specify those, so I guess I lose the points.

[Brunitski]

We don't say that here.

If an Aussie ever says to you "Look mate,(through gritted teeth) you are really starting to give me the shits/piss me off/ get up my nose/get on me wick-------" RUN,there is no riposte, except to hit him first; but be sure you king hit him (knock him cold)

Sound advice. But, what if I have a Donk?

Chopper trumps Donk

[Ryantology]

I know you posted the answers but I want to play anyway. Honor system.

Alunamin - Aluminum
Babushka - Either a grandmother, or the traditional Russian headscarf?
Blinkers - Turn signals
Buggy - Shopping cart?
Clicker - Remote control
Crick - Creek
Flip flops - Sandals, usually the cheapo beach kind
Gob - Mouth
Hoagie - A sandwich on a long roll
Kielbasa - A kind of sausage
N'at - "And that"
Pierogi - Potato and onion in a pastry or pasta shell
Pigs-in-a-blanket - I should know this but I don't.
Pop - Soda
Punkin - Pumpkin
Spicket - Water faucet
Sweeper - Vacuum cleaner
The burgh - Pittsburgh
Tin foil - Aluminum foil
Warsh - Wash
Yel'low - A greeting
Yinz - "You people", 'you'ins'
Yinzer - The above applied to specific individuals for some reason.

I'm a PA native (opposite side of the state, though) and my family from around there used a lot of these. Also, I'm a Steelers fan so I know some others as a result.

[Cato]

Sound advice. But, what if I have a Donk?

Chopper trumps Donk

Chopper looks impressive. One must be tough to have his picture taken while displaying a vertical 'Margaret' tattoo hugged by man boobs of that caliber.

How do I know Chopper isn't an annoying pretend bad-ass dwarf like Chuck Norris?

[greneknight]

Actually, I'm English but I'll let you off with that one..!

Incidentally, you reminded me of another cliché that gets up my nose:

* people who say British (or <shudder> 'Brit') when they mean English. I'm sure the Welsh, Scots, Irish and similar regional minorities get the same reaction.

(only kidding, knight! Well, partially anyway...)

Actually, I did mean British. You might have been Scottish for all I knew. If I don't know someone well and I figure he might be from the UK, I usually don't say English because it can be offensive to the rest. I'm English myself which is probably why I'm more careful not to offend others. Then there are others who are from somewhere far away. You can't call them English even if they were born in England. British is a safer word.

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Oh, he's just being comical. Wastepaper basket is something I've heard in England although a bin or a dustbin is more common. I've heard it called horseback riding in England. Horse riding is ok too. I think horseback emphasizes not the area of the horse but the fact that someone is mounted on a horse although one might ask why it's necessary to specify that. But that's the peculiarity of language. Sidewalk is the only one that's distinctly American. When I first heard it, I didn't know it was a pavement. I thought it was a slip road.

[Cyberman]

I'm certainly not offended and I certainly meant no offense. I know I can be difficult to follow sometimes, since there are times when I'm being deadly serious and others when I believe I'm having a laugh and a joke - even and probably especially if nobody else thinks so. Context isn't always adequate to indicate the difference. Blame it on my very strange brain if you like; I certainly do. Please try not to take anything I say too seriously, unless it's clearly meant to be, and certainly not personally.

You presumably aren't aware of this and I wouldn't really expect you to be, but I made a thread some while ago on my natural habitat here in the Black Country of the West Midlands and the way we speak here (called, officially, Black Country Dialect or BCD; much of it is essentially barely changed from Chaucer's day) in video form. Feel free to have a gander if you like, you may find it interesting. Or you may not, of course, you are after all a free agent. I don't personally appear in it because I'm really quite shy but it does give a good example of my speech patterns. Plus there's contributions from other, lesser, members sharing their own distinctive accents etc.

Incidentally, from what part of our septic isle do you hail? I should have guessed, but didn't, you were a fellow angel-islander, given your religious affiliations.

[greneknight]

I'm certainly not offended and I certainly meant no offense. I know I can be difficult to follow sometimes, since there are times when I'm being deadly serious and others when I believe I'm having a laugh and a joke - even and probably especially if nobody else thinks so. Context isn't always adequate to indicate the difference. Blame it on my very strange brain if you like; I certainly do. Please try not to take anything I say too seriously, unless it's clearly meant to be, and certainly not personally.

You presumably aren't aware of this and I wouldn't really expect you to be, but I made a thread some while ago on my natural habitat here in the Black Country of the West Midlands and the way we speak here (called, officially, Black Country Dialect or BCD; much of it is essentially barely changed from Chaucer's day) in video form. Feel free to have a gander if you like, you may find it interesting. Or you may not, of course, you are after all a free agent. I don't personally appear in it because I'm really quite shy but it does give a good example of my speech patterns. Plus there's contributions from other, lesser, members sharing their own distinctive accents etc.

Incidentally, from what part of our septic isle do you hail? I should have guessed, but didn't, you were a fellow angel-islander, given your religious affiliations.

I can't be more specific. I promised my Mum not to be more specific than England. She's paranoid and she thinks there's always a paedophile waiting to track me down. But I recently moved to a far away country because my dad is in the foreign service. My Mum is very particular that I should not disclose this new country I'm in. That explains why I am still awake at this hour.

[Cyberman]

Oh, ok, that's more than fair enough. I quite understand some people's need for privacy and anonymity and I certainly wouldn't dream of violating that, particularly where someone's safety is at stake.

Incidentally, I'm still awake at this hour mainly out of sheer boredom combined with my clinical condition which is well familiar on the board and with which I don't want to rake up again here.