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Ha, you know I nearly called them that but wondered if it was an expression you'd heard of!! Xx
 
Littlejem I think your word moggie is our word mongrel -which is a mixed breed creature. I like your word better!
You'll be doing those stairs in no time, I can tell, so the commode won't be an issue.
Yes, two hips at once was a lot for me, I now see. I didn't know what I was getting into, or I might have done one and waited a little, then done the other. As long as this recovery goes along ok and I can walk again without pain, I'll be glad it's all over. But in the meantime, I'm pretty wiped out still - tired, painful, walking funny, etc. But there's improvement each week - today is day 16 post op and I feel much better than 1 week ago. So next week should be that much better. For you, too! You sound great already.
 
Hi ByGosh we have the word mongrel but would use it just for a mixed breed dog, it's so interesting isn't it how words can change even slightly from country to country and I love it that because of something so awful, (our hips), we get together to chat across the miles, it's brilliant!!. I went to the USA for the first time just before Christmas to celebrate my 60th, we did New York with a trip to Washington DC and although it was a flying visit we both thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. At least your hips are both 'done and dusted' now although it's not surprising you're wiped out, it's hard enough to have one done, but the stairs, getting in and out of bed and even just sitting down must be a mammoth task!! Very brave or is it a little mad, whichever, I definitely am in awe of you having the bottle to do it!!:bow:
 
Littlejem ok, I'll bite again. I can guess from the context that "bottle" means "cojones" or something like, but where does the word come from??? Inquiring minds want to know :heehee:
 
Nothing like home sweet home...so happy to hear that you are on the healing side
 
Ok zauberflöte, having used the 'bottle' expression all my life I'd never really thought about where it comes from. We say 'he has a lot of bottle' if he's courageous, people 'lose their bottle' or they 'bottled out ' when they don't do something because of fear, so to 'have a lot of bottle' means they are courageous. I've looked up why and it seems to come from the cockney rhyming slang 'bottle and glass' - 'butt' or bottom = back to bodily functions, so you can work out what loosing your bottle means! You stumped me on that one!!! :heehee:
 
Littlejem that's wonderful-- thanks for doing my research for me. :wink: I love the cockney rhyming slang. I love words and wordplay in general, so you've brightened my day!! :)
 
@zauberflote and Littlejem I would think that "bottle" phrase would have something to do with drinking to give you courage, you know what I mean? If you have a lot of bottle, you may have had a lot of drink, and are feeling brave...Maybe it's just me thinking like that! (Hic!) LOL
But I love those different English phrases, too. I even get a kick out of "loo" and "walking sticks" and "elbow crutches". I guess I'm easily amused.
My Dad was a great one with word play. He used to exchange the first letter of words and talk that way. Like for the words "talk backwards", he would call it "balk tackwards". Or if he were asking us if we wanted a "spoon or a fork", he'd ask if we wanted a "foon or a spork". It was kinda cute and funny, like he'd "shake a tower" instead of "take a shower". Some was even a bit off-colored, which we loved as kids and which I won't repeat here!
Littlejem, how did the stairs go yesterday? Are you able to go up and down?
 
@zauberflote I don't think I'm tagging you with your name, because I don't know how to put those 2 little dots over the "o". Can it be done on a computer? Maybe my laptop isn't bilingual! Maybe you can explain Littlejem, in case @zauberflote doesn't get this message?
 
zauberflöte Hi Bygosh sorry but I don't know how to do the dots either, I'm assuming/hoping she's getting the tags anyway? Well really strange but as I started to type her name it popped up for me to click on and there it is with the dots!! I think your explanation re the drink and bottle sounds much better than the one I found and when I'm off these pain killers I shall be having 'a lot of bottle'!! I think it's funny that we use different words for the same thing and 9 times out of 10 we know what each other is talking about, helped by TV and films or movies. I love it that your dad transposed the letters in words, my grandfather did the same thing when I was little and it makes me smile now to think about it. :cheers:
 
Littlejem and ByGosh, zauberflote has a keyboard that allows for the dots--US keyboards and, I assume, UK keyboards do not offer this as far as I know. And you will notice that since I didn't tag her, there are no dots.
 
LOL Littlejem ByGosh bottomshollow all three of you are wrong! :) I have a plain old Windows machine that my son cobbled together from old parts a few years ago. I got the "o with umlaut" from a Windows feature called the Character Map. I get my musical notes from there too...♫♥♪♠ etc!
Here's something interesting! When I go to tag somebody, the forum "autocompletes" for me with several suggestions, and I just click on the right member's name. Some others must have that too-- some people, (including you Littlejem ), do tag me successfully.
Words are funnnnnnnn. How about the classic American kid's word, "basketti"? LOL
 
@Zauberflote I didn't get an auto-complete option then, I wonder why it doesn't come up each time? ByGosh got one for yours though!!
Ok my turn, what is 'basketti'??
 
Well, you live and learn---I wonder if that's available somewhere on Windows 7. When you tag the computer gets your user name from the forum which has the little dots.
 
Littlejem well that time it was not a real tag... I wonder what is going on!!?!??
"basketti" is how many American youngsters say "spaghetti". It's a hard word to say... I remember saying "Yew Nork" (for New York) as a 3 yr old, and cracking myself up. Oddly, my mother was cooking spaghetti at the time LOL. That still cracks me up! Yew Nork, Yew Nork, Yew Nork!!!! Bwaaahahahahahaha
bottomshollow on XP it's under all programs>accessories>system tools. I pinned it to my start menu to make things easier :)
 
zauberflöte - the auto-complete came up then and I think it's because last time I didn't use a capital Z!! Basketti or busketti, yes now you say, I do remember the kids saying it when then where little! :rotfl:
 
zauberflöte YES! YOU POPPED UP AND HERE YOU ARE, UMLAUT AND ALL! Hooray.
And it's pissketti I thought, not basketti because spaghetti has a P in it not a B. (I just verified that with my daughter, who should know - even though she's 18 now!)

This one's for you @zauberflote (you didn't pop up this time.....?? no umlaut, sorry) :

" A spoon and a fork and a bottle and a cork, that's how you spell New York."

"A chicken in a car and a car can't go, that's how you spell Chicago"

And listen to this one my dad used to say:
"It was a winter's day in summer,
the snow was raining fast
a barefoot boy with shoes on
stood sitting in the grass...
It was midnight on the ocean
Not a streetcar was in sight
I stepped into a cigar store
to get myself a light.
The man behind the counter
was a woman dressed in gray,
She used to sell bananas on the road to Mandalay."

Ever hear it before?
 
I like that, a bit like---

One bright day in the middle of the night
Two dead boys got up to fight.
Back to back they faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot each other.
The deaf policeman heard the noise,
And came to kill the two dead boys.

and then there's---

I see said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and his saw.

Oh, the silly fun things we learn as children and never forget because somewhere deep inside we are all still that child.
 
ByGosh That's a good one! I've never heard it before, except I seem to know that there's a song called The Road to Mandalay. Sho nuff, it's got the same meter (metre...) : broken link removed: https://www.metrolyrics.com/on-the-road-to-mandalay-lyrics-frank-sinatra.html
I had a babysitter who told a joke about how Chicago got its name-- the punch line is "She-Cargo". *groan*

Well, I always thought it was basketti, but hubs goes with the "p"... I am NOT lysdexic, really! :rotfl:
 
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