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RE: Nickname/catch phrase trivia
July 19, 2020 at 8:08 pm
OK, I'll play.
"Peeler" is a policeman. Thank you, Pterry!
"Pocket peeler" would be a knife. (?)
Unless "peeler" means "dick", as in the colloquial reference to a detective.
I have nowt on the rest of it.
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RE: Nickname/catch phrase trivia
July 19, 2020 at 8:22 pm
(July 19, 2020 at 8:08 pm)Fireball Wrote: OK, I'll play.
"Peeler" is a policeman. Thank you, Pterry!
"Pocket peeler" would be a knife. (?)
Unless "peeler" means "dick", as in the colloquial reference to a detective.
I have nowt on the rest of it.
‘Pocket peeler’ is a miser, a selfish person. Someone who would rather peel a potato in his pocket than share it out.
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RE: Nickname/catch phrase trivia
July 20, 2020 at 3:33 am
(July 19, 2020 at 7:05 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (July 19, 2020 at 7:02 pm)Little lunch Wrote: Big smoke - nearest bigger town or city.
Crack a fat - crack a stiffy or a half-mongrel.
Esky - Chilly bin.
It's not really a roaring fire either but I was being artistic.
Well done! But for ‘Big Smoke’, was thinking specifically of Belfast - never knew it was used for other cities. Thanks!
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I take it you have never been to Pittsburg or Gary Indiana......
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RE: Nickname/catch phrase trivia
July 20, 2020 at 4:16 am
(July 20, 2020 at 3:33 am)onlinebiker Wrote: (July 19, 2020 at 7:05 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Well done! But for ‘Big Smoke’, was thinking specifically of Belfast - never knew it was used for other cities. Thanks!
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I take it you have never been to Pittsburg or Gary Indiana......
You are correct.
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RE: Nickname/catch phrase trivia
July 20, 2020 at 4:39 am
I used to live near a mill called Farleigh Mill in Queensland.
I don't think it's used anymore.
But the locals around my area used to say 'Farleigh Mill' instead of 'Fuck'.
So I was down in Margaret River, Western Australia, about 5000km from that mill and I heard I guy say it.
Apparently his dad used to say it and had worked the cane farms around Mackay in his youth.
The guy didn't even know there was a real Farleigh Mill. :-)
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RE: Nickname/catch phrase trivia
July 20, 2020 at 6:49 am
The bundle of rods around an axe (ancient Roman symbol of power) are called "fasces". Mussolini adopted that symbol for his party and they came to be called "fascists."
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RE: Nickname/catch phrase trivia
July 21, 2020 at 12:17 pm
(July 19, 2020 at 6:57 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Since I wouldn’t want Brian to get the idea that we don’t want to play with him, and since it doesn’t seem that the game is restricted to nicknames and catchphrases, I offer the following:
-What is a ‘peeler’?
-What is a ‘pocket peeler’ (no connection to the one above)?
-What is ‘auld reekie’?
-What is ‘the big smoke’?
-What would you keep in an ‘esky’?
-What does it mean to ‘crack a fat’?
-Where would you go to purchase a ‘bawbie’?
-What does ‘Auntie Beeb’ do for a living?
-What is a ‘foilin upper’?
-What are you expected to do with ‘neeps’?
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Answers:
-A policeman, usually in one in uniform.
-Cheapskate, miser, skinflint.
-Edinburgh, Scotland.
-Belfast, Northern Ireland (and other places, apparently).
-Food and drink - it’s a chilly bin, an ice chest.
-To get an erection.
-A antique shop. More specifically, a coin dealer.
-News and entertainment (the BBC).
-Double feature at a cinema.
-Eat them.
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RE: Nickname/catch phrase trivia
July 21, 2020 at 2:13 pm
(July 21, 2020 at 12:17 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (July 19, 2020 at 6:57 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Since I wouldn’t want Brian to get the idea that we don’t want to play with him, and since it doesn’t seem that the game is restricted to nicknames and catchphrases, I offer the following:
-What is a ‘peeler’?
-What is a ‘pocket peeler’ (no connection to the one above)?
-What is ‘auld reekie’?
-What is ‘the big smoke’?
-What would you keep in an ‘esky’?
-What does it mean to ‘crack a fat’?
-Where would you go to purchase a ‘bawbie’?
-What does ‘Auntie Beeb’ do for a living?
-What is a ‘foilin upper’?
-What are you expected to do with ‘neeps’?
Boru
Answers:
-A policeman, usually in one in uniform.
-Cheapskate, miser, skinflint.
-Edinburgh, Scotland.
-Belfast, Northern Ireland (and other places, apparently).
-Food and drink - it’s a chilly bin, an ice chest.
-To get an erection.
-A antique shop. More specifically, a coin dealer.
-News and entertainment (the BBC).
-Double feature at a cinema.
-Eat them.
Boru
Y'all talk funny.
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RE: Nickname/catch phrase trivia
July 21, 2020 at 2:33 pm
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2020 at 2:36 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(July 21, 2020 at 2:13 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: (July 21, 2020 at 12:17 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Answers:
-A policeman, usually in one in uniform.
-Cheapskate, miser, skinflint.
-Edinburgh, Scotland.
-Belfast, Northern Ireland (and other places, apparently).
-Food and drink - it’s a chilly bin, an ice chest.
-To get an erection.
-A antique shop. More specifically, a coin dealer.
-News and entertainment (the BBC).
-Double feature at a cinema.
-Eat them.
Boru
Y'all talk funny.
Chur. If you were local, I’d have you at the bring a plate at the bach. It’d be choice as (being in the wop wops), plenty of jandals and to spare. No huhu.
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RE: Nickname/catch phrase trivia
July 21, 2020 at 4:01 pm
(July 21, 2020 at 2:33 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (July 21, 2020 at 2:13 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Y'all talk funny.
Chur. If you were local, I’d have you at the bring a plate at the bach. It’d be choice as (being in the wop wops), plenty of jandals and to spare. No huhu.
Boru
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