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12-28-2009, 03:16 PM | #1 |
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Brit-Speak Q&A
What means "Dickie Bird"? as in
On a tree by a river a little tom-tit Sang "Willow, titwillow, titwillow!" And I said to him, "Dicky-bird, why do you sit Singing Willow, titwillow, titwillow'?"
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12-28-2009, 03:20 PM | #2 |
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- Dicky bird is a small bird. Little bird would probably be the most accurate translation.
- Dicky can also mean ill, ie a dicky tummy, or a dicky ticker (heart) - Dicky Bird was a famous cricket umpire (Dick and Dicky being a nicknames for Richard in the last century)
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12-28-2009, 03:24 PM | #3 | |
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Also used in the context of silence/isolation: not a dicky bird.
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12-28-2009, 03:24 PM | #4 |
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Thanks, luvs.
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12-28-2009, 03:42 PM | #5 |
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The on-air pseudonym of the main character in the film Comfort and Joy.
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05-17-2010, 01:38 PM | #6 |
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Explain this one to me, if you please:
Your children's television program Charlie & Lola has been imported over here for many years. On the Disney website, there are a number of themed games you can play, one of which is Flip-Flop: an analog to our game of "memory," except instead of precisely matching the images under the cards, you are to match things in logical pairs, like the pirate with the pirate ship, etc. First off, I have trouble with the so-called correct match of a mermaid and fish sticks... "because mermaids always eat niblets of the sea!" That's weird enough in itself, but cannibal mermaids notwithstanding, I simply can't fathom this one: The Lion matches The Toothbrush. "Because lions are always stealing your toothbrush!" WTF? |
05-17-2010, 02:16 PM | #7 |
Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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The lions are lyin' about your toothbrush? Huh?
That post cracked me up! Yeah, why the hell would mermaids eat seafood? I've always used that as my excuse for hating crustaceans. And you never see fat mermaids. They probably eat kelp all the damn time!
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05-17-2010, 03:25 PM | #8 |
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Most fish eat smaller fish. Q.E.D.
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05-17-2010, 03:43 PM | #9 |
Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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But, does a centaur eat smaller horses? Do cow-people eat smaller cows? Do mole people eat smaller moles?
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05-17-2010, 03:59 PM | #11 |
I hear them call the tide
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Are you sure it's British? Standards must've slipped after I left ....oh no wait, my kids watched Teletubbies...
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05-17-2010, 04:00 PM | #12 |
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OBVIOUSLY you don't watch enough SpongeBob
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05-17-2010, 11:51 PM | #13 |
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And the little mermaid wore an alge-bra.
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05-18-2010, 12:29 AM | #14 |
Touring the facilities
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05-18-2010, 12:51 AM | #15 |
Only looks like a disaster tourist
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By-the-way, it seems that every time I go away for a week someone changes their user name.
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