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#206878 - 08/28/12 06:32 AM Re: My attempt to relay the post [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
Tromboniator addict Registered: 05/10/10 Posts: 691 Loc: Alaska	Originally Posted By: Rhubarb Commando Many thanks - "F-Bomb" is not a phrase in use this side of the pond. So – what pond is that?
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#206879 - 08/28/12 06:43 AM Re: My attempt to relay the post [Re: Tromboniator]
Rhubarb Commando old hand Registered: 11/13/11 Posts: 1032 Loc: Lancaster, UK	"The Herring Pond" - a humourous reference to (some of) the inhabitants of the Altlantic Ocean _________________________ I'm immortal until proven otherwise
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#206893 - 08/28/12 09:06 PM Re: My attempt to relay the post [Re: Jackie]
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11580 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	How did you manage to retrieve my original post?!? I tried hitting Quote AND Edit, but got nada. Anyway, if you scroll down in what Rhuby so miraculously found, you can see the link to other words that have made it into dictionaries this year.
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#206899 - 08/29/12 12:44 PM Re: My attempt to relay the post [Re: Jackie]
Rhubarb Commando old hand Registered: 11/13/11 Posts: 1032 Loc: Lancaster, UK	Hitting "Quote" worked for me. There is definitely something rum going on! _________________________ I'm immortal until proven otherwise
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#208630 - 01/01/13 03:19 PM Re: My attempt to relay the post [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
maverick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/15/00 Posts: 4757	> side of the pond I'd have to disagree there, Rhuby - my kids (in their 20s) use the phrase "F-bomb" and more specifically "C-bomb" as a natural part of their lexicon. I suspect this is more a generational thing, given how open the yunguns are to Merkin influence nowadays.
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#208647 - 01/01/13 10:01 PM Re: My attempt to relay the post [Re: maverick]
Rhubarb Commando old hand Registered: 11/13/11 Posts: 1032 Loc: Lancaster, UK	OK, I bow to your more contemporaneous knowledge - my own kids are in their mid-forties, now, and the youngest of my students, these days, is in her late fifties! It's not far short of twenty years since I taught in the prison amongst relatively young - and very street-wise - people. So I'm well uncool about de street buzz, ennit? _________________________ I'm immortal until proven otherwise
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#208648 - 01/01/13 10:31 PM Re: My attempt to relay the post [Re: Jackie]
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7184 Loc: Vermont	But you stay up late just like the young kids! _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#208655 - 01/02/13 07:59 AM Re: My attempt to relay the post [Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
Rhubarb Commando old hand Registered: 11/13/11 Posts: 1032 Loc: Lancaster, UK	But I also get up early (ish) - unlike the young kids. _________________________ I'm immortal until proven otherwise
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#208664 - 01/02/13 01:13 PM Re: New words--second attempt [Re: Jackie]
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7184 Loc: Vermont	Really early!! _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#208666 - 01/02/13 01:47 PM Re: osmotic language change [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
maverick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/15/00 Posts: 4757	ho hum, just checked with my daughter and she corrected me firmly: "No Dad, I never use that phrase, it's only Jim who does, and he has picked it up from American TV." So there we have it, language change on the cusp - the older child doesn't use it, the younger one and all his mates do.
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