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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 3 1 2 3 Re: My attempt to relay the post [Re: Rhubarb Commando] #206878 08/28/12 10:32 AM 08/28/12 10:32 AM Joined: May 2010 Posts: 959 Alaska Tromboniator old hand Tromboniator   old hand Joined: May 2010 Posts: 959 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? Re: My attempt to relay the post [Re: Tromboniator] #206879 08/28/12 10:43 AM 08/28/12 10:43 AM Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 1,075 Lancaster, UK Rhubarb Commando old hand Rhubarb Commando   old hand Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 1,075 Lancaster, UK "The Herring Pond" - a humourous reference to (some of) the inhabitants of the Altlantic Ocean I'm immortal until proven otherwise Re: My attempt to relay the post [Re: Jackie] #206893 08/29/12 01:06 AM 08/29/12 01:06 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie OP Carpal Tunnel Jackie   OP Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 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. Re: My attempt to relay the post [Re: Jackie] #206899 08/29/12 04:44 PM 08/29/12 04:44 PM Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 1,075 Lancaster, UK Rhubarb Commando old hand Rhubarb Commando   old hand Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 1,075 Lancaster, UK Hitting "Quote" worked for me. There is definitely something rum going on! I'm immortal until proven otherwise Re: My attempt to relay the post [Re: Rhubarb Commando] #208630 01/01/13 08:19 PM 01/01/13 08:19 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 M maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick   Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 > 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. Re: My attempt to relay the post [Re: maverick] #208647 01/02/13 03:01 AM 01/02/13 03:01 AM Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 1,075 Lancaster, UK Rhubarb Commando old hand Rhubarb Commando   old hand Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 1,075 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 Re: My attempt to relay the post [Re: Jackie] #208648 01/02/13 03:31 AM 01/02/13 03:31 AM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont But you stay up late just like the young kids! formerly known as etaoin... Re: My attempt to relay the post [Re: Buffalo Shrdlu] #208655 01/02/13 12:59 PM 01/02/13 12:59 PM Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 1,075 Lancaster, UK Rhubarb Commando old hand Rhubarb Commando   old hand Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 1,075 Lancaster, UK But I also get up early (ish) - unlike the young kids. I'm immortal until proven otherwise Re: New words--second attempt [Re: Jackie] #208664 01/02/13 06:13 PM 01/02/13 06:13 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Really early!! formerly known as etaoin... Re: osmotic language change [Re: Rhubarb Commando] #208666 01/02/13 06:47 PM 01/02/13 06:47 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 M maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick   Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 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." 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