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Old 01-15-2006, 08:44 PM
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we use spigots too, but a hose pipe sounds like something to the exahuast system to a vehicle, lol

the Amish men here, when they ask my dad to help them (Dad owns a tractor with rubber wheels, as oppsed to the Amish tractors with steel wheels which are not road legal) haul things to town, they alwys add " if it suits". first tme i heard it, i thought that they wanted him to WEAR a suit! lmao

some of our slang can be hilarious if the litteral meaning was taken rather than the slang meaning. ie. I am going to crawl into the bathtub---i am getting on my hands and knees and moving myself to a large water filled basin and moving my body into it.

or "taking the Mickey out of some one" means making fun, or harrassing someone.. Literal translation could be some surgery technique for taking a swallowed stuffed Mickey Mouse out of a person's stomach.

one of my favorites, taken to the literal meaning was "Spaceballs" when they were "combing" the desert looking for Princess Vespa, They had huge combs, combing the sand!

I love "good onya", (Aussie for good for you) as i have always gotten a mental picture of either a huge sign that reads "GOOD" on top of someone squished to the ground, or a very large, but happy man named "Good" sitting on the person who is being told "Good onya!"
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