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[Carol]

Doing a great job there GUT....makes me proud!!

Oh ladies, ladies, ladies... you are more then welcome... come on and have a drink with the American boys....oh, I;m the only one? well all the same come on over and have a drink... I have those stockings y'all wanted....

GUT old boy.. if you need a hand let us know..


Steadmund Brand

Cissie, Dolly and I are really looking forward to meeting you. Unfortunately we've no way we can leave the attic here in the Café Wilhelm without Jerry noticing us. We wondered if you are able to come here instead. We'd like to invite you to tea next Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m. It's the best time as the krauts will be in barracks sleeping off Sunday lunch then and won't be coming here until about 8 p.m. for their usual tipple.

We do hope you can come. Cissie and Dolly say 'Don't forget the nylon stockings'!

Carol

[Carol]

[QUOTE=Archaic;314494]

And Hershey's Chocolate Bars; don't forget the chocolate!

Hmm, this escape committee is already sounding just like those nostalgic days of WWII, when the Yanks were "overpaid, oversexed, and over here."

Anyway, when will I be given my mission to infiltrate the enemy, poison a few key generals and steal their secret codes?

I signed up to be the Deadly Blonde, not the typist!

Archaic

Bunny, old girl, am I glad to hear from you! Can't reply to you right now as the waves on this radio are getting short. I've got to give it a good wind up. Should be ready after lunch to have a proper chat with you.

I thought you'd had it to be quite honest with you. Last we heard from Winston he said that you'd been parachuted down over Denmark but had failed to make contact with The Lemon and The Flame. He was jolly worried about you and so have Cissie, Dolly and I.

Get back to you this afternoon.

Wiggy

[Carol]

Hello there Bunny,

Where are you calling from, old girl? I think I ought to warn you about GUT. He's one of the ANZAC boys and you know what they are like. Be watchful. When he says 'How far will you go for the cause?' he's not talking about distance as such. I'm sure you know what I mean.

I'm sure our 'boss', pinkmoon, will be able to give you a really good mission that you can get your teeth into. Are you fluent in German? Ciss, Dolly and I are trying to learn the lingo but it's jolly complicated. It would certainly help when we escape.

You talking about chocolate made us three really homesick for old Blighty. My favourite is Milk Tray, Cissie's is Dairy Box and Dolly likes the lot! Have you got any of that lovely American chocolate left? I can remember you always kept a spare bar tucked away up your right knicker leg!

I hope that you're holed up close by.

I'm getting really worried about pinkmoon. He's been very quiet lately. You know how he tends to worry about things. Have you got any news about him?

Wiggy

[pinkmoon]

[QUOTE=Carol;314510]

Oh, I get your drift all right! Naughty boy. What you need is a good spanking.

How much will it cost me?

[GUT]

Oh, I get your drift all right! Naughty boy. What you need is a good spanking.

ooooh Yes please.

[Mayerling]

Hi barn,

We've got Laughing Gravy on an old video tape. Lovely little dog. Adults can be really cruel, can't they? It would have been a great name for your Golden Retriever.

Carol

I really like that comedy. The landlord who is done in by the boys and "Laughing Gravy" is Charlie Hall, who is second to James Finlayson ("D'Oh!!!) as their opponent in the shorts, and who from Australia.

Jeff

[Mayerling]

[QUOTE=Archaic;314494]

And Hershey's Chocolate Bars; don't forget the chocolate!

Hmm, this escape committee is already sounding just like those nostalgic days of WWII, when the Yanks were "overpaid, oversexed, and over here."


Archaic

Has anybody ever considered what a terrible put-down this expression is for the locals who use it - without thinking about it - regarding themselves? It means that "we are underpaid, undersexed, and never go anywhere!" Sounds really pathetic, doesn't it?

Jeff

[Archaic]

[QUOTE=Mayerling;314559]

Has anybody ever considered what a terrible put-down this expression is for the locals who use it - without thinking about it - regarding themselves? It means that "we are underpaid, undersexed, and never go anywhere!" Sounds really pathetic, doesn't it?

Jeff

Hi Jeff.

I think it's quite a witty remark really, and shows an admirable ability to laugh in the midst of hard times. After all, there was a war on.

Most of the men were off fighting, the civilian population including the women were working round the clock for the war effort, and then our glorious Yanks waltz in with their exotic Brooklyn accents, cash, cigarettes, stockings & Hershey's bars...

I'm actually surprised the remark was so humorous, restrained, and polite.

Perhaps there were been other popular sayings full of 4-letter words that simply have not come down to us?

Cheers,
Archaic

[Amanda]

Typical..

Hi Guys,

I'd say that expression was typical of the British 'stiff upper lip'.

My Mum was in the Army & reckons that a lot of the coded messages they put on the back of letters came from the American troops such as:

S.W.A.L.K - sealed with a loving kiss ( most common one)

H.O.L.L.A.N.D - hope our love lasts and never dies

N.O.R.W.I.C.H - (K)nickers off ready when I come home!

Amanda

[Carol]

[QUOTE=Mayerling;314559]

Has anybody ever considered what a terrible put-down this expression is for the locals who use it - without thinking about it - regarding themselves? It means that "we are underpaid, undersexed, and never go anywhere!" Sounds really pathetic, doesn't it?

Jeff

Hi Jeff,

I'm English, married to a Swede and live in Sweden. 'Overpaid, oversexed, and over here' is typical working class English humour (I'm working class myself). It's something I really miss here in Sweden - the ability of the English to laugh at themselves. So I just laugh at myself on my own!

Nice to hear you're another Laurel and Hardy fan!

Carol

[Carol]

[QUOTE=pinkmoon;314531]

How much will it cost me?

That woke you up, didn't it?

[Carol]

ooooh Yes please.

You're as bad as pinkmoon. One track minds. No wonder we haven't got very far with our escape plans yet.

[Robert]

Poor old Charlie.

"Ignore him. We'll take the high road, and let him take the low road."

[pinkmoon]

I'm still bored

[Mayerling]

[QUOTE=Carol;314633]

Hi Jeff,

I'm English, married to a Swede and live in Sweden. 'Overpaid, oversexed, and over here' is typical working class English humour (I'm working class myself). It's something I really miss here in Sweden - the ability of the English to laugh at themselves. So I just laugh at myself on my own!

Nice to hear you're another Laurel and Hardy fan!

Carol

I like to think that Americans got their sense of humor from the English, but the population here is so mixed now. More universal than it was in, say, 1800 or 1840.

I've been a Laurel & Hardy fan since I was a kid. Their shorts and films were constantly shown on television in the 1950s and 1960s. If they are not the greatest comics, they are in the top five or ten.

Jeff