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Your cleaning project must have destroyed their habitat. Shame on you Weasel 🙂

I’ve decided he was an omen sent by the gods, instructing us how we should spend the festive season.

Pissed as.

Cheers!

Oh, and we bought a Christmas tree today. Hurrah!

Nowhere near a door, so I can’t work out where they’re coming from.

Spontaneous generation. What type of carpet fiber do you have? You might be able to patent the process. . .

Ummm…the expression is “pissed as a newt” and it means drunk. Uncle B sometimes forgets he’s mostly talking to Americans.

As for cleaning — I’ve always said, if it weren’t for Photoshop, I’d never get my house clean. You should’ve seen the carpet before I took P’shop to it!

You haven’t had an accident recently, have you? It could be a GEICO representative trying to contact you….

Uncle B sometimes forgets he’s mostly talking to Americans.

Well, yeah, but y’know this is not just any set of Americans. . .surely most of us knew or could figure that one out?

Never mind.

Some of us gringos were able to put the allusion together with the partial comparative and arrive at the complete phrase “pissed as a newt.”

Not me, of course. But I’m sure there was a gringo or two here who actually studied instead of listening to the teacher, and managed to get hep to U.B’s jive.

Oh, FINE. Now I’m being accused of condensation!

How could it be condensation when it arises out of a sincere concern for the comfort and well-being of your minions?

Condensation? My, how you dew go on…

Um, I’ve always been puzzled by “pissed as a newt.” I mean, I understood what it meant, but I just kinda wondered why. I was about to ask Uncle Badger if he knew the derivation, but thought I should look it up myself, first, and found this in the Urban Dictionary:

Reference to the natural wobbling gait of a newt.

So, um, does that make sense?

We would not accuse you of condensation Weas that would be all wet.

Yeah, it’s true.. they wobble.

Especially after being trapped in a mug by a weasel.

A witch turned me into one of those.

I got better.

Man, you shoulda checked her weight. Dead give-away.

“Pissed as a rat” is another construction, so I don’t know about gait.

Uncle B and I got into an argument once that hinged on the fact that I meant “angry” when I said “pissed” and he meant “drunk” and we totally misunderstood each other.

Rats don’t wobble?

Wait, no. I think the expression we differed on was “ticked off.”

By which I meant “angry” and he meant “told off.”

And then there is “knocked-up” which, so I was given to understand in my early youth, meant two COMPLETELY different things, depending which side of the Atlantic you were standing on. . .

It gets better. Because railwaymen had to get up all hours of he day or night, they used to have ‘knocker uppers’ to visit their houses and make sure they were out of bed in time.

Now there’s a job title to put on your passport!

I suppose it is too late in this interchange to mention the line from Leslie Charteris: “‘It would be rather nice,’ said the Saint reflectively ‘to get Titus an owl.'”

I first read that when about 11. . .and I was well into my twenties before the penny dropped. But since that date, euphemisms for drunkenness have held no mystery for me. . .

and “fanny”…and “pants”…

(steve_in_hb once told a story in which an American friend of his was dressing for a night out with her British SO. She emerged from the bedroom wearing a skirt and said, “I didn’t feel like wearing pants. Is this ok?” The man angrily responded, “You damn well will wear pants! Get back in there and put some on!” Bemused, the American lady agreed, and reemerged in jeans. “What happened to the skirt?” the Brit asked, puzzled. Heh.)

I know from personal experience that it is possible to be pissed whilst pissed!

BTW, out of curiosity, does “stuffed” mean the same thing in the UK that it does in New Zealand? My former Kiwi sister-in-law would practically fall out of her chair if someone said,”Man, I’m STUFFED” after a meal. o_O

whoa boy….. All those misspend nights watching “Who’s line’ are starting to tell…

I’m having Tony Slattery flashbacks.

Shag haircut.

I am still back at newts. Plague? I thought they were good for potions and all and always envisioned thousands of blind newts toddling down to the local grocers.

I surely missed something but does stuffed in the UK and NZ imply some sort of coitus?

Was talking with an aussie gal a while back and she passed on a number of cross-“dialect” words that I was laughing my butt off over.

I think you’ll need more newts for a proper “plague”.

Re: Newts—they seem quite charming to me, but I wouldn’t want them skittering around in my house either. When I lived on the Gulf coast, I would find anoles—those little green lizards—in my house all the time, usually in the middle of the night and in my bathroom.

Mrs. Peel—my U.S. Navy son (newly arrived in Scotland) was at morning church, and during the tea time in-between communion and the service, he remarked to a new Scottish friend that he was wearing new pants. Turns out that was a real conversation killer! He quickly learned to say Trousers, and does to this day. He also found out the hard way that “suspenders” are used to hold up ladies’ stockings, not your pants—er, trousers. So now he wears braces!

Okay, I’m befuddled…what’s wrong with my pants?

pants = panties = knickers

(Who said I can’t do math?)

My weasel up in the logo no longer runs when I alight my mouse atop it. How much carbon is saved by this change?

Excuse me — now he gallops! Is that becuz I just posted a comment & he is celebrating or ????

Granny J, I think Miz Weasel gives you a running one depending on how much she likes you. See, I don’t even rate a locked weasel. I have a completely blank logo.

Allen = No Weasel = 🙁

I can’t do math but I can homogenize data.

Oh, and to say “you root” for a certain team implies a very willing sort of fandom in Oz.

Granny, it should run all the time when you’re inside a post where you can see comments, but not on the front page showing all the posts.

It was once my dream to have ALL the sidebar graphics animate when you mouse over them, but WordPress doesn’t play nicely with Flash. Coincidentally, I’ve just spent a couple of hours re-learning that 🙁

Confusingly, it can mean both in the UK, weirdsister.

So there’s stuffed as in: “No more pie for me, thank you Mrs. Miggins – I’m absolutely stuffed!” or “We’ll never get another race out of this engine – it’s stuffed!” or “Why don’t you get stuffed?!”

The last is specially recommended as an opening gambit with politicians of all kinds.

@ Lemur King and Allen:

I too met a charming Aussie gal awhile back, so you can imagine the hilarity that ensued when I told her my last name is Root ( which it is, no lie ). After she caught her breath and wiped the tears from her eye’s, she suggested I should move to Australia and set up as a gigalo and have business cards made reading ” For A. Root … just dial 555-5555 “. And thats when I light (however dim) went off in my brain, explaining why everytime I made a credit card purchase in Australia, the person behind the counter would glance at my card then stare at me suspiciously.

“How do you know she’s a witch?”

“Oi, she turned me into Newt Gingrich.”

From a tiny newt a mighty T-Rex grew
Oooh Weasels what is you going to feed him??
🙂

“Get stuffed” works in the US. “The engine is stuffed” thing wouldn’t.

Now, if somebody can explain why my grandfather would go “see a man about a horse”…
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