FOO?.....FOO?...we're officially FOO?...what the fark is foo?...what have you blokes done?....I told you before, each new post must contain at least some reference, no matter how obscure, to bikes on roads....FOO?....Foo for farks sake!.....Foo has gotta mean "mindless crap that we don't know how to classify"........so we taking over Foo....can we vote for a name change for Foo?.......so how is life in Foo?.....no more 'I've got a puncture, what now?' threads....'how will I live!.....Fooo?....fark, they coulda moved it somewhere else!

Hitchy

Guess they got us with that one, hey? :D

As 531 might say: BWAHAHAHAAAAHHAAHHHHAAAA.

We've been Foo-barred. As were Garden Variety Gnome (b 97) and the Punting Thug (st 98). BWAHAAAHHAAAAHHAHAHAHA to them too! Comic tragedy.

Hey Munchie, how they heck are ya? 531 asked if Torelli tubes could be purchased at a retail outlet here in Oz. Had to remind him I only knew of one place. You can probably guess. I'm ordering in January, do you need any?

By jove I think I've got it! (say it with a 1950's english actor accent for the full effect!)...If we got moved to Foo for not being 'roadie' enough....all we have to do is not be 'Foo' enough & we get chucked out of here too!....we could become like a mobile thread!....keep getting chucked out of everywhere for disrespecting the locals.....sorta like the US army, only funny! :D.....('there'! thinks Hitchy,"thats a start")....I only have one question!....Given that 'Foo' would appear to be ' mindless unclassified crap'...how the fark do we get chucked out of here?......Don't tell me we gotta start talking about bikes?.....oh the humanity!

Hitchy

Oi lads,

I've discovered a problem with 'Foo'....there farking no one home!....I just looked down the bottom at the 'whose on thingy'....& guess what....just ME....I'm sitting here ranting to myself!.....whats the point of stickin' it to Seppo's if no-one is reading it!.......I think this thread is about to die through lack of ***** stirring opportunities! (whic might be exactly what the mods wanted!)

Hitchy

Maybe we're such a "time-slot hit" that they've moved us to boost the ratings of this section -- just like when NBC moved Cheers to Thurday to boost Thurday night ratings.

Ok... Stoopid question from a yank... WTF's a Seppo?

You or me, Hitchy? :p

No, after you....no, I insist. I'll give ya a few minutes

Ok.......maybe we should make her look it up......!....Oh alright....'seppo' is rhyming slang...Aussies are very big on it...we refuse to call virtually anything by its proper name!. American=yank=septic tank=Seppo....pretty easy really!

hitchy

another example of Rhyming slang...I was talking to a mate this morning about the bloody great 'noah' that ate someone off a SA beach the other day. 'Noah', as in 'Noah's Ark'= 'Shark'. In Oz, a big shark is generally known as a 'Bloody great Noah'

cheers,

Hitchy

I'm not big on it, but my favourite is "Moreton Bay" :p

Ok, interesting. Thanks.

Mind if I try my hand at it Doty?

Go for it -- or was that it?

Yeah, that was it.

Aussie=Oz=Dorothy=Doty

:D

Hmmmmm, well, no, not really. Nice try though :)

"Oz" is obviously linked to "Dorothy", but it doesn't rhyme, so, no go. :(

It's not really something that the "under 40s" do -- it's more of an old man's thing :p

Here's one: "that guy has a Moreton Bay fig".
"Moreton Bay fig" is rhyming slang for "wig"

Oh, okay. I guess it's a Tolie thing :)

Old man=Geritol=Tolie

Yeah, a "Tolie".

It's also probably more of a Brit thing than an Aussie thing.

Some pretty juicy females post in FOO. I like that about it!

There's a love-hate relationship between the the brits and the yanks - they each seem to be fascinated by some aspects of the culture and appalled by others. That's exacerbated in online situations where people just seem to forget politeness. As a brit, the unquestioning jingoism that get's indoctrinated into yanks from birth can get tiring after a while. I don't doubt that they find the brit's lack of any apparent patriotism just as strange. Those are sweeping generalisations but that's probably got something to do with it. Having your own forum where people actually speak the same lingo probably has something to do with it as well :)

My dad's been a cricket groundsman for over 30 years so every summer when I was a kid I'd 'help' him mark out the wicket. I'd be playing cricket (well we'd be playing with a beer crate for stumps, a bat, tennis ball and a jumper for the other end) until it got too dark to see the ball. Most kids don't live anywhere near a public cricket pitch whereas you can just wander down the local park with your mates with a ball, put two jumpers on the ground for posts and voila, one instant football game. At school you'd play football in the first term, rugby would get played in the middle term if your school was posh and then it'd be athletics (yank: track & field) for the summer term. Cricket is still seen as a posh man's game except amongst the ethnic minorities who've largely migrated from the West Indies, India and Pakistan.

Sorry if I've rambled on too much :D
Paul

Thanks for that, Paul. Looks like you took some time to gather your thoguhts, and also made sure you wouldn't offend anyone. But your gramatically correct, properly structured paragraphs that contain no expletives really don't belong here.

Is that where 'nads came from?

:D

Koffee

The missus is back in the UK at the moment so I've got too much time on my hands. Can anyone tell? :p
Next time I'll try to rite dead proppa like wot u duz.

I'm sorry, I don't understand the question.

You know... like "oh, someone just kicked me in the 'nads"

Koffee