Killing the bike that killed mine

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You foreigners and your slang!
Let me see if I got this straight....... from this thread I gathered that it would be perfectly acceptable for me to:


"strop a bloody dolphin slapper from arsehole to breakfast"
or
"fang a toff in the paddock if it wasn't too decidedly knackered".



:shock: wait........what !?

those sentences just don't sound right!
Speak English Dammit! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
 
I'm not sure you want to fang a toff, from all of this I think I would perhaps fang a ride on a toff's bike, if not too decidedly knackered. Also, I might have a Toff's bike but will never be a toff, I was born out of toffdom.

But I am a Bloody Dolphin Slapper so I'd prefer to be stropped gently, if at all.


An old friend, Colin from the Uk told me that he got a rough reception years ago on his second week living in Canada. He was riding home with a coworker he had just met, quite soon after setting up carpool arrangements. It would be Colins turn to drive the following morning. As the coworker dropped Colin off at his rental suite, Colin cheerfully informed him " I'll knock you up in the morning"
The coworkerwas not a bright bulb but figured Colin's phrase was a direct questioning of his sexual orientation or a homosexual comeon. The dimwit coworker was instantly red faced and angry, in fact he very nearly hit Colin. Somehow the language barrier was overcome before violence occurred, so Colin can laugh about it now.

Glen
 
Mark said:
You foreigners and your slang!
Let me see if I got this straight....... from this thread I gathered that it would be perfectly acceptable for me to:


"strop a bloody dolphin slapper from arsehole to breakfast"
or
"fang a toff in the paddock if it wasn't too decidedly knackered".

:shock: wait........what !?

those sentences just don't sound right!
Speak English Dammit! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Hilarious Mark!!
This thread should be called veritable plethora.
 
From what you've told me, we don't have real toffs in Australia, unless they've sneaked in past our border protection. We don't have hereditary peers of the realm, only a few wannabees. A 'paddock basher' is an old nmotorcycle the kids have got going, and start bouncing around the jolly old fields with. 'Paddock' is the name for the verdant fields which surround most Australian homesteads (read - ranches ) !
 
I love the thought of 'knocking someone up in the morning'. I think I will leave retirement and start working again. Is that 'one of the perks' in America ?
 
Knocking someone up in the morning is a British phrase meaning, Ill go to your house and knock on the door in the morning.
Getting knocked up in Canada or the US involves intimacy and fertility between the sexes plus a nine month gestation period then about a thirty year (and counting) rearing/funding period.

So you can see where there would be some confusion.

I believe the phrase used to describe the differences between te UK and NA, " Two common Cultures divided by a single Language?"

Oz and NZ fit in there somewhere close to the UK, but definitely with some added jargon of their own.

Glen
 
Mark said:
You foreigners and your slang!
Let me see if I got this straight....... from this thread I gathered that it would be perfectly acceptable for me to:


"strop a bloody dolphin slapper from arsehole to breakfast"
or
"fang a toff in the paddock if it wasn't too decidedly knackered".



:shock: wait........what !?

those sentences just don't sound right!
Speak English Dammit! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Click to expand...

Thanks for the laugh Mark, yes its amusing the slight language barrier, but what gets up my nose is the abbreviations used on this forum. We all know (Im assuming) what "IMHO" means but there's others that just escape me!? :?
foxy
 
Another Australian Colloquealism was . . . ' Youd whinge if youre arse was on fire ' Acording to George . the pilot in Miles Tripps ' The Eigth passenger'. Story of a WW II Lancaster crew .

P.S. they found Triump 500 GP engined generators pefectly adequate, and declined the Japanese offer of RD 350 units . :roll: :wink:
 
If you were going t o get serious about road racing, two stroke used to be the wa y to go. Easy to get speed and handling out of them, but that era has passed, and they were not something I ever really wanted to race anyway. I sold an excellent TZ350G to buy a decent gearbox for my Seeley. I chose, and I made a decision. At least my bike gives me a real buzz - it has soul ! Even just looking at it is exciting.
 
Isn`t Honda now making exciting life-life/replicant/human-analogue/cyberchicks, - with geisha soul-emulator function app as optional extra?
 
I believe they've got one that you can ring up, and it will give the person at the other end a hug. If you've got enemies you could probably arrange for it to give them a really big hug .
 
Isn`t Honda now making exciting life-life/replicant/human-analogue/cyberchicks, - with geisha soul-emulator function app as optional extra?

I thought that was Helen Clarke . :!:
 
No Matt, Nippon monsters are, like, Godzilla, Mothra, et al, H.C. was more like Herman Munster, `cept scary.
 
I used to work in one of the old Australian defence factories. We had the complete British trades system Engineers, Foremen Grades A,B, and C, Leading hand, tradesmen, cleaners, progress checkers - the whole kit and kaboodle. Their biggest problem was that they never recognised what a prototype was, so variation was endemic right across every project. All this American stuff about configuration management was not even on the horizon. ISO9000 came out of Britain, mainly from WW2 aircraft production, but the poor old motorcycle industry had no hope. There was no Marshall plan which rebuilt British industry after the war, so they were never going to be able to compete with the Japanese. Your President Roosevelt made sure of that. Compare a CB750 Honda with a BSA Gold Flash - which one would you buy ?
I am surprised that the commando is so good. Until I owned my Seeley, I never appreciated the motor. It is a really strange old motorcycle with that extremely long stroke. I don't know what the new version commando will be like, it appears to be trying to be a modern bike, and I don't believe it really succeeds. I think I would have made the tank lower.
 
Wow! I wonder if the owner liked the Reverend Horton Heat.? A lot of therapy must have went into making that bike.
 
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