JTR Museum

[Dane_F]

Dane,

Please don't be offended - its the rhyme that counts, it's not meant to be descriptive.

BTW there is a very knowledgeable American poster on the boards called Colin Roberts. His ID is Septic Blue, recognizing his nationality and that he is a supporter of Chelsea (a London football team who play in a blue strip).

And consider yourself lucky that you are not a Scotsman. Scotsmen are traditionally called 'Jock' by Englishmen, and the rhyming slang for that is Sweaty Sock - better to be a Septic than a Sweaty, I'd have thought.

Gary

Haha. Not at all. My friends and I joke around enough that calling me a Spetic Tank would not be the worst thing I've heard. As far as which I prefer being called. . .in the U.S. A Spetic Tank is used to collect all the contents of the toilet when you flush, so I'm not sure I'd rather be that than a Sweaty Sock.

Some of the most interesting differences to me come in the use of the "B" word by Brits compared to how we use it and how "bloody" in the states is basically meaningless. There are a couple Yanks who might use the term but even then it is only used in an English Accent and a joking tone. Also. . .my British friend has a very hard time saying (and I mean no harm) "balls". While people here use it similarly to how "bloody" is used in England. It is a VERY common word to use instead of using a curse word. Yes, to us "balls" is used when you want to go lighter than a curse.

[Dane_F]

Isn't "yank" pretty derogatory in itself?

I guess some Americans might think so. I've never had a problem with it since it's just short for Yankee. I mean we have an entire baseball team called the Yankees. Our USMNT World Football has the nickname of Yanks. I guess I've always just looked at Yank in the same way I would view Brit or Aussie.

To be clear, for my non US friends here, Yank is not a term basically ever heard in the USA except when talking about the Yankees (however we never shorten it to Yanks) and when we talk about our Soccer team (World Football :P) we usually say Men's National Team (sometimes I will hear them called Stars And Stripe).

There is only one exception to this. In the southern states people will sometimes call those from northern states Yanks/Yankees. But even this is very rare nowadays. Almost all of my experiences with the term have come from my British friend who calls me a yank jokingly. It's a term I think most Americans would know but just never use.

[Rosella]

A poster on another forum objected to the nickname 'Jocks' being applied to Scots as she said it was derogatory and akin to calling Irish people 'Paddies'. So we were all slapped down.

[GUT]

I must say I had wondered about Colin's Septic Blue as here it is/was a cleaning product suitable for septic tanks, you hang it in the cistern.

[MrBarnett]

Dane,

Please don't be offended - its the rhyme that counts, it's not meant to be descriptive.

BTW there is a very knowledgeable American poster on the boards called Colin Roberts. His ID is Septic Blue, recognizing his nationality and that he is a supporter of Chelsea (a London football team who play in a blue strip).

And consider yourself lucky that you are not a Scotsman. Scotsmen are traditionally called 'Jock' by Englishmen, and the rhyming slang for that is Sweaty Sock - better to be a Septic than a Sweaty, I'd have thought.

Gary

[Joshua Rogan]

Isn't "yank" pretty derogatory in itself?

[Dane_F]

I'm not sure how I feel about Spetic Tank being Cockney for a Yank. . .

[GUT]

Over on JTR Forums Ed Stow has posted some photos. The museum is apparently not yet open.

Thanks I'll never see it. A bit too far.

[MrBarnett]

Over on JTR Forums Ed Stow has posted some photos. The museum is apparently not yet open.

[Joshua Rogan]

I thought it must be, but that's another one I've never heard before.
I've probably never had enough money to worry about slang for that much!

[GUT]

I've never heard of a Commodore, before....that's brilliant!

GUT, what's a gorilla? (other than two monkeys)

A gorilla is a grand or $1,000.

[Joshua Rogan]

I've never heard of a Commodore, before....that's brilliant!

GUT, what's a gorilla? (other than two monkeys)

[GUT]

Apparently Casebook is a "Wind and Kite" (website), according to an entry at the bottom of the following URL titled "How is Cockney slang developing?"
http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk...rhyming_slang/

I like some of those used for money. Years ago (25-30 years) I was in the East End and heard a second hand car salesman say to somebody checking out a car that he'd do it for a monkey (£500)
http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/subjects/money

It's a monkey because it is half a Gorilla.

In Aus we have a few

Skipies (our $1 has Kangaroos in it)
A lobster, the color of our $20
A pineapple $50 is yellow
An apple $100 is green

[Ozzy]

Apparently Casebook is a "Wind and Kite" (website), according to an entry at the bottom of the following URL titled "How is Cockney slang developing?"
http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk...rhyming_slang/

I like some of those used for money. Years ago (25-30 years) I was in the East End and heard a second hand car salesman say to somebody checking out a car that he'd do it for a monkey (£500)
http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/subjects/money

[GUT]

In Aus Todd Sloane would be Pat Malone. But mean the same. Often shortened to "on me pat".