DiggsUK Posted June 28, 2006 Report Posted June 28, 2006 How often do you get to use that one? Do you move in ecclesiastical circles?
blind-fitter Posted June 28, 2006 Author Report Posted June 28, 2006 It is merely an eccentric variant on the more usual "More tea, vicar?", politely intoned following the breaking of wind by another. A more down to earth exclamation under similar circumstances might be "Your good health, ma'am*", or the somewhat vulgar, but nonetheless profoundly satisfying, "Good arse!" * Alternatively: "Your good health, milady" in the voice of Parker from Thunderbirds
DiggsUK Posted June 28, 2006 Report Posted June 28, 2006 Or of course: "Speak up Brown, you're through" or "Shoot that duck" The list goes on and on for the much maligned yet oft celebrated trouser-cough...
DiggsUK Posted June 28, 2006 Report Posted June 28, 2006 (edited) or "You wouldn't want that in your sleeping bag" ...... Edited June 28, 2006 by Guest
blind-fitter Posted June 28, 2006 Author Report Posted June 28, 2006 or "I'll name that tune in one!"
blind-fitter Posted June 28, 2006 Author Report Posted June 28, 2006 "Is it "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes" by Ultravox?"
blind-fitter Posted June 28, 2006 Author Report Posted June 28, 2006 Meanwhile, getting back to the original matter-in-hand... "Are you bereft? " (...meaning "have you lost your senses?")
Shawna Posted June 28, 2006 Report Posted June 28, 2006 gee, b-f, I wouldn't have pegged you for someone who so likes words. <--- heavy on the sarcasm.
blind-fitter Posted June 28, 2006 Author Report Posted June 28, 2006 "so I said, with all the dignity I could muster..."
johnnyguitar Posted June 28, 2006 Report Posted June 28, 2006 reprehensible poltroon We used to say 'More coke vicar?'...I think it may have come from a John Cooper Clarke rant. Have I told you my....'Liqueurs, Senor?....Lick your own!' riposte...you needed to be there.....it was one of my best.
blind-fitter Posted June 30, 2006 Author Report Posted June 30, 2006 "Codswallop!" "Hell's teeth" "I am the spirit of dark and lonely water"
johnnyguitar Posted June 30, 2006 Report Posted June 30, 2006 "I am the spirit of dark and lonely water" Scariest movie ever made....if you were six.
blind-fitter Posted July 5, 2006 Author Report Posted July 5, 2006 "Kiss me neck, me nearly bust me head"
blind-fitter Posted July 6, 2006 Author Report Posted July 6, 2006 "I spurn thee as I would a rabid dog."
MindCrime Posted July 6, 2006 Report Posted July 6, 2006 SvenGali (I believe this word is Norwegian & have not a clue to it's meaning)
daslied Posted July 6, 2006 Report Posted July 6, 2006 Svengali was a character in a Du Maurier novel, and the word has since been used to mean someone who tries to convince others to do things, usually with negative associations. Phil Spector was considered a "Svengali" because of his controlling ways with artists.
blind-fitter Posted July 6, 2006 Author Report Posted July 6, 2006 Svengali was a character in a Du Maurier novel, and the word has since been used to mean someone who tries to convince others to do things, usually with negative associations. I remember seeing a TV play adaptation of the novel. Svengali was an impresario in the drama profession, and didn't so much convince others to carry out his bidding as manipulate them by using some secret hypnotic powers. I recall that in the TV play he used this skill to "persuade" an actress to undress down to her scanties. It's indelibly etched on my mind, as it was the first time I got the horn.
MindCrime Posted July 6, 2006 Report Posted July 6, 2006 convince others to carry out his bidding as manipulate them by using some secret hypnotic powers. Sounds like it's "Must See TV!!!" unlike that unfunny crap that they play nowadays on Prime Time Thursdays. ============================================================== In an unidentified episode of Seinfeld, Elaine used the term SvenGali to describe someone, probably one of her nitwit boyfriends, due to the fact she couldn't keep a date for more than one week at a time. ============================================================== Butros Butros Gali...not Norwegian either. UncleJoe, perhaps your correct & the Viking Brotherhood of Legions will have me set to the flame & burnt at the stakes, for my naive assumptions. If the Vikings don't do me harm, then Santa or Thor will. They're a mean cold-hearted people, & it's even colder in Norway.
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