Anyone here ever dated a bandicoot?

This is a most enlightening thread, and may i extend my most heartfelt contrafibularities to those who have contributed to our educational well being,by participating in this discussion.

Well, I for one am glad you appreciate it.

Not personally, but I've always wondered what they taste like with Reggae Reggae Sauce.

I feel that I must take a most frazmodic and compuctuous exit from these wafflings!

Not to my knowledge, but I was married to a Weasel.

Well as I was off working hard yesterday in Holland (honest I was guys!)

I am catching up in badger Mode!

So we have "The Badger"

The one he should have hired!

and finally here is a woman stroking her badger!
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Julien

Enough badgery. Today's word is:

Brobdingnagian

Brobdingnag

Brobdingnag is the fictional land occupied by giants in Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver's Travels. The eponimous hero, Lemuel Gulliver, visits the land after being blown off course. A map printed in the second part of Gulliver's Travels indicates that Brobdingnag is located on the northwestern coast of California and is a peninsula 6,000 miles long by 3,000 miles wide. Lorbrulgrud is the capital city and the king had a seaside palace located at Flanflasnic. A mountain belt composed of strato-volcanoes upto 30 miles high marked the northern boundary

Brobdingnagian (adjective) has come to be used to describe anything of colossal size.

The books are a great allegorical romp and well worth reading!

Christian the Married

Hedumacational or what? Top stuff.

Nufink beats a good hedgamification. Me Mater tells me so!

Christian the Married

I learnt meself a good hedumacation when I was schooling.

Ah I buggered that up on too much aircraft and modelling. Doing better since tho'

Christian the Married

I was lying, of course. Hated school, learnt very little. I always think that anyone who maintains that their schooldays were the best years of their life hasn't led a very interesting life.

Blimey!

I go away for a couple of days decal packing (its a sort of hiking thing, but involves sticking bits of paper to yourself....) and what do I find? I've only gone and missed the badger!

I was going to do my world-famous rampant badger impression too..... ah sodit I'm going to do it anyway:







There, wasn't that impressive?

Agreed!

I was quite disappointed when you didn't respond to the badger, but at least you had a good reason. Great impression, by the way!

The badger was disapointed as well, I can tell you!

Glad you liked the impression, just as a special favour I'll do it again:










If anything, I think that was even more impressive - though I says it as shouldn't. I've been practicing the little pas de chat at the end - it shows, I think?

Actually, I preferred this one:


to the second one:
I think you maybe over-rehearsed for the repeat performance.

Christian the Married

eh?

Right, today's word (or words) of the day is an old favourite, though where I first heard it is lost in the mists of time:

Otis P. Fudpucker

Errrrrr National Lampoons something-or-other??????

Christian the Married

You could be right, I've seen many of their fine movies over the years. Animal House being my favourite: "Toga! Toga! Toga!"

John Belushi was a comic genius.

Now we really are stretching the limit – two words, an initial and a FULL STOP!!!!








I know, I know . . .

. . . it's your game . . .

I'll probably go for a single word on Monday.

Weird, when you put this in Google and select pictures, one of the ones you get is


Cool!

No word for Saturday? do we do weekends off?

Julien

But of course. How else would I find time to think up new ones?

Today's word is:

polari

Hmmmm, getting a bit worried about Obi-Jiff!!!!

Polari

Polari was originally a mixture of Italian, Romany, London slang, backslang, rhyming slang (Cockney), sailor slang, and thieves' cantor, which later incorporated Yiddish and American elements to form a linguistic cipher as oposed to an individual laungage. Initially it started with a lexicon of 20 words (i.e. ajax, bona, cod, eek, lattie, naff, nanti, omi, palone, riah, TBH, trade, vada, zhoosh) and now contains over 500-600 words.

It is very similar to Parlyaree which was common amongst people involved with the travelling circuses and fairs and has some conection with argots as used by travellers.

Initially Polari developed amongst the London fish markets, theatres and within the homosexual community. It's use by the gay community was to hide this activity as it was still illegal. Some links have been drawn between the theatre and gay community as there was much cross-over between these two.

Will this do?

Christian the Married

Isn't it what chavs and hip-hop 'singers' use these days?

Nick

Wasn't he a Garry Trudeau character, an American singer who remained in Vietnam? Or am I thinking of Thudpucker?

Joseph

I've just checked, it's Jimmy Thudpucker, apparently.

I'm only interested in it as a language! Just as I am by Cockney rhyming slang, and various other interesting forms of communication. First came across Polari in a tv show about Round the Horne, the popular radio programme ("Hello, I'm Julian, and this is my friend Sandy"). I've been fascinated by it ever since, even though I always make sure to travel on the right bus, and any gardening I do is on a level surface, definitely not uphill.

Okay gentlemen, and ladies if you're watching, today's word is:

undercrackers

A cracking pair of draws?

as in, 'Ahem', a rather atractive element of undergarb to cover a ladies nether regions.

Wonder what it means in Polari?

Christian the Married

This is Sid Surge's combined Funeral Parlour and Safe Burgling establishment just off the Peckham High Road, isn't it?

tis a name for underpants , as jim royle said " i paid 3 quid for these udercrackers and there is 2.50's worth up my arse !!"

I don't know what it is, but undercrackers is one of those words that makes me laugh, no matter what.

Right, for the faithful who are still with me, today's word is:

barracuda

Barracuda - an expletive used against ugly gay men - as in 'You're a Fairy Barracuda'

David

Ah, Barracudas - hate the nasty bastards. When I actually had a bit of spare dosh (that was a long time ago!) I had several sailing holidays in the British Virgin Islands. On one occasion I was snorkling around the boat at anchor and wanted to take some photos of the anchor in the sand (I know - how sad is that....?) so I swam round the side of the boat and came face to face with two of the big ugly sods - scared the living bejesus out of me - they had that 'let's do lunch' look in their nasty eyes - have you ever tried to run up a boarding ladder with flippers on????

We hates'em my preciousssssss.

Fairey, Fairey, Fairey, Fairey, Fairey...

Christian the Married

Sounds a bit fishy to me

Oh Cod! this is hardly the plaice for that sort of fin, is it?

Stop that! It's silly!

Rowan, the mental image I have of you running up the ladder in flippers is causing my colleagues to look at me most strangely.

Right people, today's word, with spelling variations (I prefer the first one), is:

cromulant

or

cromulent

A new one to me – sounds like a form of polish that Oliver might have used to shine up his helmet . . .

Good one, Nick.

According to one definition it's "Over-use of spray paint." Sounds like pre-shading, to me.
Edgar

I'm with you there, Edgar.

Mazovian, thats a form of polish.... Silesian - that's another one.

'shine up his helmet'? steady on, lad, this is a familly program!