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sorry if it was a little localised!
Dunno if it's localized. It just hasn't made its way into my own personal lexicon. I don't think we tend to get much localized new slang these days. Things get created at whatever level and swapped around in the great American melting pot, the colleges and universities. You might get some lower class ghetto stuff stays localized and there's always old regionalisms that hang on, but even they are dying out. Anyone knows Bostonese know if they still talk about frappes?
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My dad used to use the phrase "a sketchy character" meaning someone who looked a little disreputable. One time there was a cartoon in the paper or the New Yorker where two people (who were drawn well in the cartoon) were looking at another person (drawn sloppily) and one was saying "he looks like a sketchy character to me."
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Anyone knows Bostonese know if they still talk about frappes?
Beats me. [pa-da-bom]
Certainly they did as recently as ten years ago.
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Anyone knows Bostonese know if they still talk about frappes?
Some do, anyway. I had a great experience about a year ago in upstate New York. A friend and I were getting ice cream, and he asked for a chocolate frappe. The look on the cashier's face was priceless, like he asked her for a hot fudge sundae with anchovies and motor oil. Lucky I was there to translate.
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there to translate
Or, when desiring a CokeŽ ordering a "tawnic".
We were in South Dakota, I think it was, once and ordered a black cow. We were told in no uncertain terms that they didn't do that sort of thing (with a perceived under text of what kind of preverts do you take us for!?) but were happily given a root beer float.
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Fronk is also a Russian fragrance. Three wise cosmonauts took fronk incesnse in Mir.
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I usually think of used car salesmen as being sleazy
In the 80s, in Oz, there was a comedy TV show (quite ahead of it's time, IMHO) called "Australia: You're standing in it" which featured a couple of Used Car Salesmen Wayne and Arthur Dodgy, henceforth known as the Dodgy Brothers. Their image, and the sketches they used to do, is probably the reason most Australians would think of UCSpeople as "dodgy".
In fact, after googling this, I've found that many Australian sites use the term "dodgy brothers" for any business which is very low standard eg. "the least said about the previous site created by some Dodgy Bros. Inc, the better". Pop culture strikes again, huh?
http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/tv/australiastand.htm reference at bottom of page
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In reply to:
Fronk is also a Russian fragrance. Three wise cosmonauts took fronk incesnse in Mir.
Geoff, go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.
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Geoff, go to jail.
But, but, Doc W, it was Mir-ly a pun! It shouldn't have sent you into orbit!
Now, as to the subject line, there were two brothers who started the Dodge Motor Company, now a part of Daimler/Chrysler. Any relationship here to used car salesmen and "dodgy?"
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Three wise cosmonauts took fronk incense in Mir.
[grooooooaaaaaaannnnnn] I am fronkly incensed, & more.
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