How To Fake Being A Limey

[Duphrates]

..and Robbie Williams isn't from Lancashire, he's from the Midlands(Stoke). Bloody Shandy drinking soft shite Southerners think the world stops above the Watford Gap.

[Aga]

Actually, where I come from we call them Mankies.
And why travel beyond Watford anyway?


Sorry about the district mix up with Robbie Duph, I was only trying to think of folk who might be internationaly known to the Yanks.
(Coronation street I believe is shown on one of their minor two bob channels) Except for Jethro and Geoff Boycott that is that is!

[ChienFou]

Further on outs at cricket:

caught. a batsman is out, "caught" when the ball strikes his bat (or forearm or glove) and carries to any fielder without bouncing. there is a specialist field position called wicket keeper, equivalent to the catcher's position; and he would expect to take a couple of catches during an innings as a result of the ball hitting the edge of the bat, scarcely deflecting and carrying to the wicket keeper. As i said this is a strike in baseball, but an out at cricket "caught behind"

removing the bails for a run-out, or stumping. there is a line drawn across the pitch about 4 foot or so in front of the wicket. The batsman is "in his ground" when behind this mark, and cannot be given out if he, or his bat, are in contact with the ground and behind the mark. thus when running between the wickets, he will make his ground after scoring however many runs (like a single or double) and then he won't be given out.

stumping is only performed by the wicket keeper, and almost always to slow bowlers; the WK stands very close to the stumps; the batsman takes a stride down the pitch and misses the violently spinning ball. The WK removes the bails before the batsman makes his ground again.

[Sniklac16]

I know some words, I know some words

bunyip = an imaginary creature
chalkie = school teacher
mozzies = mosquitoes
Vacola = jar for preserves fruit
japaras = weatherproof jackets
possie = position
fairyfloss = cotton candy
daks = trousers
willy-willy = dust storm
wonky = shaky
yabbies = small crayfish

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[Duphrates]

Snik - Err I think someone has been winding you up. Sounds more Australian to me.

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[Agamemnon]

I don't know Duph, we get loads of Willy-Willy's in Blighty! Puts me off when I'm fishing for Yabbies on the Thames.

[Duphrates]

[Chi Rho]

Sniklac, it seems you have been misinformed, see update list


Wasat = an imaginary creature
pleeser = school teacher
ooyabega = mosquitoes
gemger = jar for preserves fruit
hoos = weatherproof jackets
yerat = position
penkstoof = cotton candy
pants = trousers
disenoover = dust storm
stevens = shaky
prawn = small crayfish

[The Doctor]

Thanks, ChienFou! I really have to go and watch a match now!

And thanks to Aga and Duph for the acent info. However, I have never heard of those chappies, and although I'll probably go and find recordings of their voices, I'd also like to hear Aga's rendition!

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[The Doctor]

Oh, and ChienFou, whatever happened about your car? Did I read that the nicks have the crooks who pinched it under lock and key? Did you get the car back?

[Sniklac16]

Oh I thought we were talking Aussie.

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[Chi Rho]

j'ai pensé que nous parlions Aussie aussi

[The Doctor]

heh!

[The Doctor]

Waiting for Aga's sound/movie clip of all the accents...

[Agamemnon]

Pah!

[The Doctor]

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22chiefly+br itish%22+site:http://dictionary.reference.com &hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&start=0&sa=N

I haven't looked at them all, but I am sure I saw some that were not mathgrant-friendly.

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[The Doctor]

Aga: good start; now where are the rest?

[The Doctor]

bump

[Kd]

Ah, yeah. College work has prevented me from doing productive things, as always. Sorry about that. I'll try to add another post here on the weekend.

[The Doctor]

bump

[Dragon Phoenix]

Kd is without computer access. Maybe you can ask Taflinel, her stand-in, to take over this thread?

[Taflinel]

[British accent]Oh, hiiiii!!!
Sorry I'm late for class.[/ba]
*hugs The Doctor*
*hugs DP too*

~adorable smile~

(Ta ta)

[The Doctor]

Right as for accents and such, what would the accents be of the 5 British Monty Pythoners (and Carol Cleveland, also)? In addition, what is the region from which Mr. Praline comes? He is the one in the parrot shop trying to return the dead parrot, as well as the one who tries to buy a fish liscence and also introduces his show as such:

Originally posted by Mr. Praline:

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'Ello. 'Ow are you? I'm fine. Welcome to a new half-hour chat show in which me, viz the man what's talking to you now, and Brooky - to wit my flat mate - and nothing else, I'd like to emphasize that - discuss current affairs issues of burning import.

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'Ere are some other choice vignettes what Mr. Praline says:

[Agamemnon]

Mr. Praline sounds like he's talking like a high court barrister!

As for the Python lot, it's hard to put their regional accents to them as they all studied at Cambridge and really speak like the usual Cambridge graduate at that time. The only one who, imho, has any of his birthplace accent is Terry Jones, being from North Wales you can still catch little Welchism twangs to his voice. All the others as far as I can remember, except for John Cleese, are from the Northern areas of England with Cleesey coming from the west country.
Not sure about Carol Cleveland but she has a type of London/South East area accent.

[The Doctor]

Thanks, Aga.

By the way, when are you going to make your mp3/mpg?

[Agamemnon]

Pah!

[The Doctor]

Hmm.... I dislike that answer very much, Aga!

By the way, how do you pronounce Praline? In the states, we pronounce it "Pray-Lean", but on the show they pronounced it "Prah-Lean".

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[Duphrates]

Question to Aga or any other cricketing buff....

LBW?

Watching the test at the weekend England v Windies (go Freddie!!!) an incident came up which I need explaining. I think West Indies were batting on Saturday afternoon and the commentator (the Aussie- Richie Bernau?)said 'if the batsman plays the shot he can't be LBW'. The case in point came when the batsman put his leg forward, and padded the ball, but as an 'afterthought' played a stroke. So, if that's the case, which I'm sure it's not and I've missed something, then batsmen everywhere would just stand in front of the wicket and just swing the bat if bowled with a 'difficult' ball. Excuse my ignorance.

[The Doctor]

Bump with:
What on earth is Mornington Crescent? I heard it on I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue and was totally baffled. I have searched on google and get plenty of hits, all of which give strange, obscure, and often differing information, none of which actually tell me the rules. From what I can get, the object it to stop the opposition from reaching Mornington Crescent. Is that really it? Just keep putting your oppponent on a line from which you can't get to Mornington Crescent?

'Doc

[Chuck]

The best way to learn it is to watch a game being played. I think there's one in progress in MafiaScum.

[The Doctor]

I have seen a few games played, but they all have me stymied. I tried to follow the one on ISIHAC, but I couldn't find the second stop. They must have gotten out of the tube and used a bus or taxi... if I am even understanding anything.

This at least told me the basic rules: http://www.galactic-guide.com/articles/6S8.html

Still, what prevents someone from saying Mornington Crescent?

[The Doctor]

In case you want to know what the names were on ISIHAC (Humphrey Littleton says they are going to play Trumpington's Variation):

Humphrey: Totteridge & Whetstone
Tim B-T: Lower Regent Street
Barry: Kings Street (Cambridge one)
Willie: Oval Road
G.G.: Hendon Central
Tim: Croden Cottage
Barry: Bonn Street
W: Fullove Paris Road (which makes him blocked, but not boxed, and "far from cornered".)
GG: Bishopsgate (which gets some ooooing from the crowd)
Tim: Mightercourt
Barry: Fitzwilliams Street
Willie: The Embankment
GG: The Hague (which gets laughing and "Brilliant")
Tim: Folkston Road
Barry: (immediately) Mornington Crescent
cheers

[The Doctor]

[Perceptron.]

Yes

[Agamemnon]

So Doc old chum, you actually listened to 'Mornington Cresent' after I recommended it to you. Then you went all Yankee and started to delve and get all serious about the rules of said game. Oh how I laughed myself insane on that one old friend Thanks for cheering me up tonight

Doc, see if you can get sight of 'Boys from the Black Stuff' on video or one of your weird Yankee chanels. A bit of black Scouse humour will enlarge you Britishismness

And Duph (wherever you may be), the LBW call from a batsman in stroke is down to the Umpire calling what he believes is either an attempt at a hitting stroke or an attempt at fooling the umpire. Umpires, usually past players themselves, know when a batsman is playing a shot or not, and will call accordingly. This of course leads to disagreements and arguements and sometimes the Third Umpire is called to make the shout.

As you say, any old flapper of a batsman can stroke a dodgy bat anytime he feels the bowler has got him bang to rights. It's just how the Umpire sees and calls it at that precise time.

[The Doctor]

In retrospect, I am actually rather surprised that I didn't pick up on it before, trying to find meaningful rules in the game--I mean, what game on ISIHAC has meaningful rules? It is certainly not Just a Minute where every challenge is met with all eyes on Nicholas Parsons for the yae or nay. I suppose I didn't look long enough at the transcripts--once I stopped understanding, I gave up. I even saw pages whose titles were, "There are no rules to Mornington Crescent", and I still didn't want to believe it!

And I'll check those out Aga! Thanks for the reccomendations!

[Chuck]

Last night I dreamed that I was in a shopping mall and had just walked into a game store. I saw some old games under a table and picked out two that I wanted to buy. I can't remember what they were. One was wrapped in green gift wrapping paper that I had to open to see what was in it. I picked them up and walked around the table and came to a stack of games on the floor. On top of the stack was a box labeled "Mornington Crescent". I opened it and found a game board folded in half so I couldn't see what it looked like. There were some plastic, bullet shaped pieces, some red and some green, in a clear plastic bag. There was also some play money in different colors and some other papers that I guessed were rules. I woke up before I could read anything.

[Perceptron..]

Those of you looking for a slice of true English culture as found on a radio program, should perhaps try BBC radio 4's 'The Archers' it's a simp[le tale of country folk.

[worm]

[Stuie]

afaik a tosser and a wanker are the same thing, and neither is worse than the other. both refer to the act of self-love, to put it delicately.

tea means 'food' in the evening, it's used as a substitute for 'dinner' (though my grandparents refer to lunch as 'dinner' so it's all very confusing). the rest of the time it's the beverage. it's usually not hard to tell, 'what's for tea' is pretty obvious, and if the pommies are anything like us skips, then usually they'll call a cup of tea a 'cuppa' anyway.