One of my best friends uses the school-day phrase "man alive" which pisses me off more than I can ever express.

>Scrolling through the subject list, I misread "Goodies" as "Goolies".
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>Which made me wonder: when was the last time I heard anyone use the expression "Goolies"?
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Theresa Gorman MP (apologies for mentioning her here) used it in a debate in the House of Commons. 'Cut off their goolies' she exclaimed. I am not sure whether they were discussing retribution or what to do with the men in the Labour party.

Theresa Gorman... who appeared on HIGNFY blind drunk. Ah.

In a discussion (on a show called The Panel) about what the Australian Film Institute awards should be nicknamed, comic Tony Martin proposed that they be named after the person whose name has appeared in Oz movie credits the most - a grip/gaffer/film developer whose surname is Gooly.
I agree, who wouldn't look forward to going to the Goolies?
Unfortunately they have been named the Lovelys (after some supposed ye olde actress from 1910 - Lousia Lovely). What a crap name. Whoever came up with that deserves a good kick in the goolies.

Oh, and for other inter-continental out-of-date expressions:
Nads (same as goolies)
Piff a yonnie (throw a stone)
Blurt (flautulence)
Tool (a foolish fellow - thankfully revived and popularised again by Greg Fleet)
Chuck a spaz (throw a tantrum)
Get a dog up ya/pull your head in (stop being foolish)

Don't know how widely known this one is, but I've always loved the expression "to see one's arse" which means to be humiliated or angry. As in:

"If Mum finds out about this she'll see her arse"

or

"Did you get off with that girl?"

"No. I saw my arse, bad style."

Any chance we could ban the phrases "dubyoo dubyoo dubyoo" and "forward slash" from broadcast use?

Janet -

is the expression "purple-headed yoghurt-chucker" still current in Australia?

>Janet -
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>is the expression "purple-headed yoghurt-chucker" still current in Australia?

I thought it was blue-veined junket-pumper. And as far as I know neither have ever been current in Australia.

Perhaps they were current in a different part of Australia?

"how's your father" and "slap and tickle"

"cobblers"

"ruddy" (as a substitute for "bloody")

"blue" as a euphemism for porn ("blue" movies)

To whoever said "wassock" (can't be bothered to check): that word is still very much in use. By me. I use it every day. You wassock.

It was me. Go back and check. Sorreeeee.....

>"ruddy" (as a substitute for "bloody")
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>"blue" as a euphemism for porn ("blue" movies)
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>To whoever said "wassock" (can't be bothered to check): that word is still very much in use. By me. I use it every day. You wassock.

And I ruddy well used "ruddy" in an e-mail this morning. To Jon I think.

I always thought it was "wazzock". Are we talking about the same word, or is this some local dialect thing?

It could be a local spelling thing.

I usually go for the "wazzock" spelling.

"Nev F"

Jon, I fear your view of Australia may be a little out of step with reality!
(Bean, do we call him a drongo now?)

>Jon, I fear your view of Australia may be a little out of step with reality!
>(Bean, do we call him a drongo now?)

Let's call him a "toe-rag" because all British people are like they are in The Bill and they use expressions like that.

guttersnipes - can i urge everyone to buy jonathon green's dictionary of slang (big, yellow, published by cassell, picture of dog and bone on cover). the ultimate toilet read. learn that your balls are also called 'christ apples' and that male recreation can be known as 'dancing with mother thumb and her four daughters' etc etc etc.

j xxx

Bean and Janet, you're just a pair of dags.

Jon, you are spunky!

Indeed. I'm just a great big smear of spermatozoa.

here's one maybe you lot should hear:

"get out more often'

But people who say that are the same sort of people who say "get a life"

meep was unavailable for comment but wanted to add some words that I don't approve of.

Sick to death of "it all went pear-shaped"

>Sick to death of "it all went pear-shaped"

You can blame Ben Elton for making David Haig say it constantly The Thin Blue Line for that.

Jon's a spunk? Corrr, I think I've cracked a fat!
(Being an Adelaide boy you may not have heard the term "cracked a Bacchus Marsh". Bacchus Marsh is half way to Ballarat, which in rhyming slang = fat)

Janet I have been to Bacchus Marsh (one time on the way to Melbourne), it's a shit hole and I'm being polite here.

So, er, by calling me a 'fat' you're actually saying that I come from Bacchus Marsh?

Why?

No, no Jon. You're a spunk. (We may have to draw a map here)

Janet, you're a ball of string.

(Being a Melbourne girl you may not have heard the term "ball of string". In rhyming slang string = Alice Springs)

Jon, you're freaking me out!

Did anyone read 'Janet and John' when they were a kid? That's what this reminds me of.

Woof

Meow

Run, Pat, run.

JUST GIVE ME THE FUCKING BALL, BITCH


ISENEDT
IDNEST

Janet - Come on doggie, give me the ball!

c:/dos/
c:/dos/run
run/dos/run


I like that joke, but I wouldn't wear it.

nerd joke alert!







(uh-oh, it made me laugh)

help.

j xxx

>here's one maybe you lot should hear:
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>"get out more often'


Meep is Bob Stanley of liking Carlton/collecting Idents fame

"Robert Newman"

More contributions to "The Dictionary Of Embarrassingly Outdated Colloquialisms":

"slap and tickle"

"how's yer father"

"duff you up"

"smash your face in"

"Reds" (NB out-of-date in UK only; still current in US)

"Frank!" "Pat!"

Also, I've just remembered 'poove'.