"Buggering hell!" is not a real expression
Indeed. "Bugger", "bloody hell" and "fucking hell", yes, but not "buggering hell", for some reason.
Kaylee: H-how did you... g-get on...? Early: Strains the mind a bit, don't it? You think you're all alone. Maybe I come down the chimney, Kaylee. Bring presents to the good girls and boys.
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Am-Chau Yarkona - Aug 02, 2003 7:20:38 am PDT #6070 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Angus G - Aug 02, 2003 7:21:23 am PDT #6071 of 9843
Roguish Laird
Hmm...although people do say "fucking hell" so I'm not sure that translation thing entirely works!
(But you're right that no-one says "buggering hell", or "buggering" anything much really, it's more likely to be "bugger me sideways" or if you're Australian just "bugger!")
(BTW "bugger" doesn't just mean "screw" it specifically refers to, um, back-door screwing.)
JohnSweden - Aug 02, 2003 7:26:02 am PDT #6072 of 9843
I can't even.
I'm almost curious enough to go web/OED searching on scone pronunciation. I've always known it as scone/gone and my relatives, even the Inverness crowd pronounce it that way, in spite of the Throne/Scone association. Puzzling, because I always assumed the bone/scone was an English thing.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Aug 02, 2003 7:30:15 am PDT #6073 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
(But you're right that no-one says "buggering hell", or "buggering" anything much really, it's more likely to be "bugger me sideways" or if you're Australian just "bugger!")
(Although it's sometimes used in the past tense: "that's buggered" (broken), "he buggered off".)
erikaj - Aug 02, 2003 7:32:28 am PDT #6074 of 9843
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah, Angus. I get that. But, as far as I can tell that particular act is not quite quite as big in our curse lexicon as it is for you.(As a verb, anyway. There's all kinds of names for people that indulge in it. )hinking of itr way just kind of gives me a hint about where Fic! Spike might use it. that's all.
JohnSweden - Aug 02, 2003 7:33:03 am PDT #6075 of 9843
I can't even.
"We band of buggered"? Little bit direct for Shakespeare but he was a randy little ...
Burrell - Aug 02, 2003 7:36:57 am PDT #6076 of 9843
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
All other scones are newfangled American things, and based on my one encounter with blueberry scones whilst in LA, they aren't scones. Nice, yes. Scones, no.
Very true, this.
The one thing you have to give us is Southern biscuits. Hot out of the oven they are near perfection.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Aug 02, 2003 7:37:18 am PDT #6077 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
I'm almost curious enough to go web/OED searching on scone pronunciation.
A quick Google reveals all sorts of pronuciations for the word 'scone': it can rhyme with bone, with gone or with moon. See this page for example.
DavidS - Aug 02, 2003 7:39:48 am PDT #6078 of 9843
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
All other scones are newfangled American things, and based on my one encounter with blueberry scones whilst in LA, they aren't scones. Nice, yes. Scones, no.
You should see what we've done to croissants. The French are very irate about this. And an American pizza is very little like the Neopolitan version. Fish and chips, though inferior to the british, are still just fish and chips. You can even get malt vinegar. It's not like we slipped in balsamic when you weren't looking.
Trudy Booth - Aug 02, 2003 7:42:50 am PDT #6079 of 9843
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Just don't eat any bagels west of the Delaware.