Diddums....

Old Crabs family comes from England. Suffolk. East Grinstead. About half the family still lives over yonder. I've visited alot and I do love the pubs. Friendly, good cheese sandwichs, and chat. Not like in the U.S. I could go for a Guinness about now, Ah me......

I used to have a buddy from long ago who came over to the US from England and it took a long time for me to understand a LOT of what he would say when he was a bit high (drunk). Do you people still say things like: "I went up the apple and pear's to see me troublesome strife"? and to this day I'm still not sure what the hell that means. My best guess would be "I went up stairs to see my wife". How close am I?

/me ponders why Americans have to learn English all over again..

HuronJoe....Americans never learned English at all...

Nice one Jafo

HuronJoe: Do you people still say things like: "I went up the apple and pear's to see me troublesome strife"? and to this day I'm still not sure what the hell that means. My best guess would be "I went up stairs to see my wife". How close am I?

That kind of English is only used by Dick van Dyke

Fair suck of the sauce, mate...ya gotta be kiddin'..

OK Jafo and Madam Fuzzy Logic... I now know more then I did before

OldCrab: Are there two East Grinsteads? The only one I've heard of is in West Sussex. My Mum comes from near there so we drive through it every time we visit people down South.

HuronJoe: It's cockney rhyming slang.

Trouble and Strife rhymes with wife - Never heard this used by anyone except on TV
Apples and pears rhymes with stairs - Never heard this used by anyone except on TV
China plate rhymes with mate -- This I have heard people use. Commonly: Alright me old china!
Dog and bone rhymes with phone -- Never heard this used by anyone except on TV

And if you want to see some interesting words from close to where I live take a look at :
http://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/slang.htm
also http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/default_m.htm

Read the poem entitled Stitherum

Although I am from Coventry not Brummyland (Birmingham)

Also TheGreenReaper is from the UK too just to add to the list.

Only Fools And Horses is a good example

great show

very popular in spain too

Thanks, pipowell. Now I know more then I ever really needed to know. I not only know what I knew before but now I know what you just told me.
/me's head hurts.

Whoops I didn't know how to put an s after Huron Joe as in:
/me head hurts.

Maybe this will work,

/me 's head hurts.

Ahh well, I guess that should be enough for now or Elfkura will get mad at all these useless threads. Its tough trying to bond.

Why did my name get brought up?

Cockney rhyming slang is used also in 'Strine'....although we are more likely to say 'the old cheese' than 'trouble and strife'...

Robin had the best

'Holy Smokes Batman'

Up 'north', a wife is often referred to as 'ar owd lass'

Fortunately in my case a wife is referred to as 'your owd lass' hehe

its 'our lass' im origionally from the north or 'the missus' as some say

BoXXI !!!

my family on my fathers side, if followed back from when they first entered the USA in Maine goes back to the Isle of Man, Scotland and Ireland.. Kinda neat learning that

my mothers side were sailors and french whores
Blockade runners, moonshiners and otherwise all around FLorida crackers since the early 1800's.

Ah it is so good to be so purely American

hahaha

"#24 by Moderator BoXXi - 3/3/2003 8:14:30 PM
I am from a planet called CrappedOn "


well they need to turn out more like you then, world would be a nmuch better place

I am the seventh son of the seventh son (I can look in the sky and predict the rain, I can tell if my woman is with another man, etc. etc.) At any rate my father came over from Ireland and he tells me that there are more Gumbleton's in Ireland then Smiths in Detroit. Somehow I really doubt the validity of that statement but it did make my dad happy to say it as often as he could. I've never been to Ireland but my oldest brother travels quite often and he was there and told me that there is a "Pub" over there by the name of "Gumbleton's Tavern" or Gumbleton's Pub. If any of you foreign born (I use the term from my point of view ) from that area (Ireland) could verify that fact...the pub I mean.

HuronJoe: http://www.gumbleton.com/

Thanks a lot BoXXi, I knew about that site but its been a long time since I've visited it. The Bishop refered too in one of the links is my first cousin. He is my father's brother's son. At the time of his ordination he was the youngest bishop in the world. (36). Also my oldest brother is an ex-priest (Jesuett) who married an ex-nun. Lots of religious folks in my family tree, two aunts who were Mother Superiors in the Detroit area. I am the black sheep of the family as I don't follow any particular religious group. I guess I overdosed on cathologism (still havn't added my browser spell checker that IPlural was nice enough to point me towards.)
Thanks again, I thourally enjoy talking to people from all over the world via this newsgroup? message board? discussion group? whatever some of the nicest people browse here.

/me thinks that he has inherited the gift of gab from his Irish ancestors.