Amber Alert: generic sense

[Gwynd]

Originally Posted by pelham456

huh? uv linked pix of...APRONS.

how's that help out with any slang/crs meaning?



few more, while we're at it:

I have not idea what the "Apron" thing is on about, even with the whole transcript it makes no sense to me.

Originally Posted by pelham456

1) party where they're mocking the guests (a la "dinner for schmucks") reffed as a "gi-ap gala". "jee app"? "G-ahp"? he explains "you know, a festival a la windup".

anything close?

Best guess, without knowing the episode.
This party had some people at it who were "posh", they were probably of the "Home Counties Set" and therefore went horse-riding and fox-hunting, the "gee-up" gala may have been something to do with that.

Originally Posted by pelham456

2) joke abt "knocked up" awakened vs "knocked up" impregnated. wait a min...i thot brits didn't know the latter?

old ep of frasier specifically played on the fact that daphne didn't recognize the expression. has it since come into UK use? due to the apatow movie maybe?

Original usage of "Knocked-up" in UK:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knocker-up

As alarm clocks gained popularity, the term gained new meanings from the 1930s onwards. It was so far as I'm aware used to refer to pregnancy by the 1960s.
Daphne's misunderstanding, could simply be a play on a general American view of the English, or that her supposed dialect still used the older term.
For similar annoying American misunderstandings do some research into the complete balls-up Castle has recently made of the Geordie accent in "And Justice for All".

You Tube

You Tube

Originally Posted by pelham456

3) gob/gobby vs gab/gabby. do u use BOTH?

only the "a" version in the states.

once again, many thanks! esp to GWYND, who's answered most of these....

I've only ever heard the "Gob/Gobby/Gobshite" versions. "Gabby" is used as an abbreviation for "Gabrielle" made famous by "Gabby Logan" and "Gabby Roslin"

Pleasure's all mine.

[pelham456]

For similar annoying American misunderstandings do some research into the complete balls-up Castle has recently made of the Geordie accent in "And Justice for All".

we have a local radio host who does the WORST mockney accent every time he reads a news story about the UK. starts out with "right-o guvnah!" and descends into "croikey, mate!" by the time he's done. every other sentence contains references to orphanages, chimney sweeps, and big ben.

but it's the "croikey, mate!" which really seals the deal....

[haroldeye]

I Say!

[pelham456]

i guess "gee up" didn't register with me b/c it's always "giddy up" in the US. had he said "giddy up gala" i still wouldn't have gotten the reference (horses = posh folk not a common image here; horses would more likely imply bumpkins or hicks to us), but i'd have at least understood the indiv words. as "gee up", tho, i couldn't even get that far.

btw, didn't we have a discussion about the citizen smith theme song**? it's o tannenbaum/o christmas tree, which is apparently known better in the UK as some commie/labour anthem "the red flag" (completely unknown to us). i recall someone even saying that few brits would know the christmas version, but i just found one ep in which the song plays during a christmas SCENE...clearly the writers were expecting that most viewers would recognize the dual meaning.

otoh, we (apparently) use the tune for several state anthems over here. i only know this b/c it startles me every time it comes on at the beginning of the preakness (big horse race). like most viewers, i'm thinking "why the hell are they playing christmas carols in may?!"

ditto and double for gone w the wind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryla...ater_influence

i'm willing to bet that "some viewers" there is somewhere in the neighbourhood of 99.9%....


-----
** not finding it anywhere! deleted?

[pearldiver6]

Originally Posted by Cottonrat

Most of the Amber Alert road signs I have ever seen here in TX say "missing elderly". I always read the signs in case it's my parents. My mom can't see well enough to drive any more and my dad sometimes has mental lapses.

There was a case a couple of years ago of a couple trying to drive from Houston to nearby Katy. They ended up running out of gas in the Florida panhandle. You'd think they would have noticed they were going the wrong direction when they got to Baton Rouge, which is about a 4-5 hour drive.

Yep, I worry that my parents might end up in the Atchafalaya Basin without realizing they had ever left Texas.

It is fairly common for some elderly folks with dementia and/or Alzheimers or mild senility to head off on a trip or joyride, miss their destination, go on for a half hour, hour whatever, turn around, miss it again, go back to the original city/starting point, miss that and then eventually find their way home. Or some variation on that theme.

[pelham456]

tell me about it -- when we go to visit our inlaws, i often wander right past the room my wife and i are staying in, and straight into her sister's bedroom!

damn dementia.

[pelham456]

recently learned that "bread" for money comes by way of "cutter" > "bread and butter". so we also have that one.

funny, i'd always assumed it was a biblical reference! bread of life, sharing loaves, yadda yadda.

but nope; CRS.

Originally Posted by pelham456

hey, i just found out that we have one CRS in the US!

"raspberry" is quite common here for the PHHHHHHHTTTTT sound u make with your tongue. (it is also called a "bronx cheer", but far less common.)

i never really knew where the term came from but i just looked it up and it says "rhyming slang: fart -> raspberry tart".

wow. afaik, this is the *ONLY* piece of CRS used or even known in the US. even as an avid britcom watcher, i knew very very few of them until i discovered OFAH.

[pelham456]

preggo chick in maggie cole at one point says "hormones making me all...gi' emoshie".

i assume emoshie is emotional -- tho general absense on google has me puzzled -- but what is "gi' "? just "git"?

not a place i'd use "get" to begin with -- "hormones making me all...get emotional" sounds a bit off to me. but my only guess so far.

[pelham456]

ted lasso has a few jokes abt how brits have a diff term for "jock itch", yet they never reveal what it is. (unlike other terms they have tossed around)

no amount of googling seems to either. prithee tell!

[pelham456]

do brits routinely refer to the (outdoor) ground as "the floor"?

young hyacinth depicts her father passing out on the sidewalk/pavement, to which she exclaims "oh dear, there's daddy lying on the floor in drink!"

odd to yank ears.