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whoopscareless	Ded Yampy... replied on: 7/26/2006 8:20:11 PM quote: Throwing a sausage up Great Charles Street. I don't know what it means though. brilliant.
andywhite	Ded Yampy... replied on: 10/18/2006 1:00:54 AM "Throwing a sausage up Great Charles Street. I don't know what it means though." Does it mean to have sex with a rather commodious woman?
Gravy Hole Rank: Oddie	Ded Yampy... replied on: 10/18/2006 4:37:19 PM quote: "Throwing a sausage up Great Charles Street. I don't know what it means though." Does it mean to have sex with a rather commodious woman? No. You can look it up if you don't believe me, but it relates to the 17th century tradition of "Ye Sossidge Hurling". This was described in some detail by Dr Johnson in his diaries as a "merrie feftival" held to see whose sausage could be chucked in the least number of throws from the allotments which were where Edmund St now stands, all the way up to where the Copthorne Hotel is located. The participants eventually divided into two camps which became transformed into Birmingham FC and Afton Villa. So it has nothing to do with a woman who's poonani is like a welly top and I'm ashamed you'd think it would be.
DrVeraJenkins old dear Rank: Jasper	Brummie sayings replied on: 11/6/2006 10:24:41 PM A poonani? What exactly is that? It sounds like something they might raise money for at Oxfam. Please give generously for the victims of the South East Asian Poonani. Ghandi's revenge but on a much larger scale. Brummie sayings, "the Villa ave ad the cup stolen more times than the Blues ave won it". That's what my old dad used to say. I was never quite certain of the meaning but I think it meant that the Villa had won the FA cup several times and once had it stolen. Whereas, their local rivals Birmingham City... well... I don't think they had ever won it. Mind you he said it once too often in a public house on the Coventry Road and they brought him home in a box. Ahhhh... happy days.
pol pot noodle This message was updated on 11/22/2006 10:51:57 AM by pol pot noodle	Brummie sayings replied on: 11/22/2006 10:26:27 AM a 'def out' is someone who's ignoring/excluding you. ie: if a group of your mates go to the pub and don't invite you, they're 'deffing you out'. apparently 'scrage' (ie: a cut/graze to the knee etc) is a brummism. a phrase i use loads is 'what a wounder' - which my london born boyfriend absolutely loves and has started using loads. my dad says 'like, you know' at the end of pretty much every sentence. during a 20 minute phone call, i once counted 70 of the critters!! an example: 'i was at yer nan's the other day like, you know, and the phone rang and it was yer mom like, you know....' ad infinitum. i also noticed the rest of my family say 'bunfire' instead of bonfire, like me. i've been in bloody london too long. anyone got a brummie linguaphone?
DrVeraJenkins old dear Rank: Jasper	Brummie sayings replied on: 10/24/2007 10:33:07 PM I have heard a few good ones in the Black Country recently (an area I frequent on occasion when in need of cheap pork scratchings), such as: "Ar dun now war yer uskin me four, om thicka than yow" and (shouted across a football pitch at a player who has missed an open goal): "Yow still worin ya slippas or wa?" also (same spectator to same player in same game for same footballing error): "Thurs anotha one oo nids to gow t' Specsoivers"
DrVeraJenkins old dear Rank: Jasper	Brummie sayings replied on: 10/24/2007 10:42:10 PM I may have got that last one slightly wrong, looking at it. Black Country wouldn't say Specsoivers would they? Is Soivers more Brummie do you think? I know this looks odd when I write it but you need to say it... I think the Black Country would be Spec-Servers. Or Specservus. It's a subtle pronunciation thing isn't it? We need guidelines really. Goyde-loines in Brum and goyd-loyuns in the Black Country. They add a syllable to the middle wor-rud of the sentence do-wunt they? Ave a noiyus day
DrVeraJenkins old dear Rank: Jasper	Brummie sayings replied on: 10/24/2007 10:51:44 PM I always like that one, "and he turned round to me and he says" didn't some comedians do a sketch on that one. With the people physically turning round everytime they said something. Was it Skinner? Someone said to me the other week that only Brummies use the term 'traffic island" and that no one else in the country uses it as they all say "traffic roundabout". No idea if that's true or not but they said they had never heard the expression before coming to live in Brum. I'm looking back over these messages and I see the last person who contributed was in 2006! I feel like Dr Who - I've landed in a time warp. Has the world ended? Does anyone come here anymore? Have you all left for Blog world leaving us oldies once again left behind like when they brought in decimalisation?
DrVeraJenkins old dear Rank: Jasper	Brummie sayings replied on: 10/24/2007 11:14:53 PM I know your message was left in 2006 Pot Noodle and you've probably grown out of message boards and got married by now, but I want to follow up your thread anyway (that is of course the beauty of cyber world... time is unimportant - only Boundah continuing to pay the web host fees is important)... ummm, where wuz I? oh yes... not just a case of saying "right" at frequent places in the conversation, but also "you know what I mean..right?" Why do Brummies say that? "D'ya know what a mean roight?" Well does it matter at that stage if a person understands what they mean? Surely you could tell by the other person's body language or the fact they might say "can I just stop you there because I don't actually know what it is you mean" So saying "y'know what a mean roight?" every now and then seems to me, not really asking if they require clarification or further explanation, but it's a kind of inferioity thing, a verbal defence mechanism. It's sort of trying to imply that the other person might not be as bright as you because the art is to say it but not give the other person time to respond, so they are left thinking "I dunno... do I understand what they mean... maybe not because actually it is me that's thick and not them". D'yer know whadda mean loik? And does anyone give a shoite anyhow? Yer know what I mean? Yes actually it's also a mechanism for reinforcing an amusing point isn't it? People employ it in pubs when they've had a few and they're holding court? You say something which is on the precipice of being amusing and then you go for the kill with the knowing cheeky glint and the "you know what I mean?" And it's the delivery of the "do you know what I mean?" which pushes the audience over the edge into mirth, contact is made. But it is an art, some people are much better at it than others. The "do you know what I mean" experts as I refer to them as. But... do you know what I mean. Just say if you don't.... know what I mean. Also watch out for the paranoia amongst the person or people who apparantly don't seem to know what I mean. "Wha? What they on about?" Vague looks, worried expressions, feelings of exclusion.
AnnaMadrigal	Brummie sayings replied on: 11/23/2007 9:32:27 PM Ar. Some time around the G8 meeting there was an excellent article in the Guardian in which, amongst such useful advice as not being Irish and walking around Birmingham in groups of six, was an exposition of the subleties of the word "Ar" as used by Brummies. Speculating that unlike Scousers, who had many hours to wile away while waiting for the next ship to arrive at the docks to be unloaded, Brummies worked in noisy factories and had to make one word do the work of fifty, thus with variations of inflection and context, the single word "Ar" could mean: "Yes". "No". "Maybe". "Yes, but not now". "You liar". "Are you provoking me?" ""Yes I am provoking you, what of it?" "This!" and so on.
DrVeraJenkins old dear Rank: Jasper	Brummie sayings replied on: 11/23/2007 10:01:54 PM Oh ar. Adding the 'oh' to the 'ar'...as in "hang on was that another earth quake over in Gornal or is it my central heating boiler playin up?" pause... "Oh ar. I think it's the boiler". Conveys reassurance. Don't you think?
AnnaMadrigal	Brummie sayings replied on: 11/29/2007 8:48:29 PM Oh Ar. "Ar" is mere communication. "Oh Ar" is conversation.
m8e Rank: Ozzy	Brummie sayings replied on: 11/30/2007 8:48:59 AM quote: Oh Ar. "Ar" is mere communication. "Oh Ar" is conversation. A true floating signifier. Not to be confused, however, with a similar stereotypical West Country utterance (cf. Silver, L.J. and/or the Wurzels).
Gravy Hole Rank: Oddie	Brummie sayings replied on: 11/30/2007 2:20:02 PM Yes, I've never really understood what the generic bucolic Ooh-Argghh meant, it was clearly different from the beloved and more efficient Black Country oh ar. They don't know when to call a halt that lot down West, embellishing it with an completely unnecessary eh, as in ooh-arhh-oo-arhh-eh. (see Worzels - Cutler, Adge - 1973)
m8e Rank: Ozzy	Brummie sayings replied on: 12/1/2007 7:53:10 PM quote: Yes, I've never really understood what the generic bucolic Ooh-Argghh meant, it was clearly different from the beloved and more efficient Black Country oh ar. It seems to be symptomatic of some form of cider-induced psychosis.
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