My mother is, strictly speaking, a Cockney.
What kind of strict? And I have to go back to my grandfather at least, probably great-grandfather, to find a Cockney.
Oh, Pacey! You blind idiot. Can't you see she doesn't love you?
Spike ,'Help'
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 16, 2002 9:32:31 am PST #936 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
billytea - Dec 16, 2002 9:35:38 am PST #937 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
What kind of strict? And I have to go back to my grandfather at least, probably great-grandfather, to find a Cockney.
In that she's Australian, and sounds Australian; but she was actually born within the sound of the Bow bells.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 16, 2002 9:38:15 am PST #938 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Right. So Cockney born but not Cockney spoken.
P.M. Marc - Dec 16, 2002 9:38:29 am PST #939 of 9843
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Strictly speaking, my husband's a Texan.
But you get the death glare for mentioning it.
DXMachina - Dec 16, 2002 9:38:54 am PST #940 of 9843
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I reserve my Mary Poppins- ire for the American robin that shows up singing at one point. Clearly this is some England in an alternate dimension, perhaps where it's a few miles offshore of Massachusetts.
Would that be the same alternate dimension where they have tea parties on the ceiling and you can jump into chalk paintings?
Maybe the robin hitched a ride on a freighter and got stuck in London.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 16, 2002 9:40:32 am PST #941 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Would that be the same alternate dimension where they have tea parties on the ceiling and you can jump into chalk paintings?
Don't be silly, DX: people do that all the time in England.
erikaj - Dec 16, 2002 10:42:31 am PST #942 of 9843
Always Anti-fascist!
Explains a lot. Morehead Ita wants to be a Bond Girl, although tougher than Holly Goodhead and Pussy Galore, Ita Moorehead. And I'm a little stunned there would be anyone American who does not know who Dick Van Dyke is, but Too Much Television rears its ugly head again.I spent way too much time with reruns in formative years.
billytea - Dec 16, 2002 10:48:18 am PST #943 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Explains a lot. Morehead Ita wants to be a Bond Girl, although tougher than Holly Goodhead and Pussy Galore, Ita Moorehead.
That reminds me, I saw the latest Bond flick on the weekend, with Bec and Dave the Office Brit (and his GF). It's a fun movie, full of sound and action and beautiful people and wildly implausible plot twists. And Judi Dench, telling Pierce Brosnan that if it was up to her, he'd currently be undergoing torture in a North Korean prison (guess she sat all the way through The Tailor of Panama). (whitefonted for spoiler dialogue)
One interesting point: a lot of the humour (mainly rampant double entendres) seems to go over a lot better with the Commonwealth than the States. At times our row was laughing like drains while the rest of the cinema was completely silent.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 16, 2002 10:50:23 am PST #944 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
a lot of the humour (mainly rampant double entendres) seems to go over a lot better with the Commonwealth than the States.
Americans do seem to have a different sense of humour. As well as spelling it wrong, of course.
erikaj - Dec 16, 2002 11:02:27 am PST #945 of 9843
Always Anti-fascist!
well, yeah, but some of us are kind of dense or humor-impaired too.Not me though, plus, large with the Anglophilia(I put it aside for a while, but damn if Spike and Giles didn't bring it right back up.And of course Ian McKellen. and the UK-istas.)