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Started by hooplala, February 13, 2008, 05:11:33 AM

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The Johnny


I think the english call it the "Queen's Rooster" or some shit like that, i cant recall exactly.

Queen Mary's Fan??????????????

fuck i dont remember
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-B.F. Skinner

hooplala

Hmm, I've never heard of either of those and they aren't bringing anything up on Google.  Interesting though.
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MMIX

Quote from: Hoopla on February 01, 2011, 02:31:28 PM
Hmm, I've never heard of either of those and they aren't bringing anything up on Google.  Interesting though.

QuoteQueen Anne's fan

Ever wondered what you call the gesture of putting your thumb to your nose and wiggling your fingers in an insulting manner? It's called Queen Anne's fan (or "cocking a snook", or "the five-fingered-salute", or the "coffee-mill" or "pull-bacon"). A study showed it to be Europe's best-known gesture. It is first recorded under this name when Anne reigned – 1714.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/qi/7880123/QI-Quite-Interesting-facts-about-queens.html

Got to be honest, though, I've never heard the expression before. But I think I might start using it now. ALSO how do you get "pull-bacon" from the gesture . . .
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The Johnny


Why do i know this, and none of you anglophones?

**shame on your british ancestors**
<<My image in some places, is of a monster of some kind who wants to pull a string and manipulate people. Nothing could be further from the truth. People are manipulated; I just want them to be manipulated more effectively.>>

-B.F. Skinner

MMIX

Quote from: Joh'Nyx on February 02, 2011, 06:13:16 AM

Why do i know this, and none of you anglophones?

**shame on your british ancestors**

It is a well known fact, so well known that it is stereotypical, that the British are pretty naff at languages. This merely compounds our linguistic incompetence and indicates that it isn't just foreign langauges that we are shit at, but our own dear mother tongue as well.

My personal excuse is that I could never afford to buy an anglophone. I have to make do with two tin cans and a ball of string.

* A man came up to me in a pub and whispered "D'ya wanna buy some pornography?" "Nah," I whispered back "I haven't got a pornograph to play it on"
/excuse for very old very crap joke
"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently" David Graeber

Phox

Quote from: Joh'Nyx on February 02, 2011, 06:13:16 AM

Why do i know this, and none of you anglophones?

**shame on your british ancestors**

I'm an American. That means, by definition, I speak a bastardized patois of English and best, and I can't be bothered to know all these high-falootin' technical terms.

El Sjaako

Quote from: Doktor Phox on February 02, 2011, 01:26:30 PM
I'm an American. That means, by definition, I speak a bastardized patois of English and best, and I can't be bothered to know all these high-falootin' technical terms.

Definition:

American: One who speaks a bastardized patois of English and can't be bothered to know all these high-falootin' technical terms?

The Johnny

<<My image in some places, is of a monster of some kind who wants to pull a string and manipulate people. Nothing could be further from the truth. People are manipulated; I just want them to be manipulated more effectively.>>

-B.F. Skinner

Phox

I feel that there should be something in there about being fat, stupid, arrogant, xenophobic, and morally dissonant in there too....