BS: What ye got in yer mout', me old cock?

Subject: BS: What ye got in yer mout', me old cock?
From: gnu
Date: 30 Mar 17 - 10:09 PM

Buddy a mine from the Granite Planet (NF.ca) used ta greet me wit' 'at. So, what ye got in yer gob eh? Let's ear some localisms. Let us all know where they originate and, if appropriate, why. If you care ta be bothered, right?

Subject: RE: BS: What ye got in yer mout', me old cock?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Mar 17 - 10:22 PM

My cousints in Milwaukee used to live down by Mitchell Street, where the streetcar turns the corner round. Enah, hey?

Subject: RE: BS: What ye got in yer mout', me old cock?
From: Senoufou
Date: 31 Mar 17 - 04:27 AM

Here in Norfolk UK everyone will ask, "Are yew orlroit bor?" (on an ever-rising note) which merely means "Hello!"
And when leaving, they'll say, "Dew yew keep a-troshing bor!"
(For 'bor' substitute 'mawther' if the remark is to a female.)

Subject: RE: BS: What ye got in yer mout', me old cock?
From: Bugsy
Date: 31 Mar 17 - 04:42 AM

When I saw the thread title, I thought it had something to do with an indecent sex act.

CHeers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: BS: What ye got in yer mout', me old cock?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 31 Mar 17 - 05:39 AM

Yeah, good job that comma wasn't a hyphen...

Well I'll go to t'foot of our stair...

Subject: RE: BS: What ye got in yer mout', me old cock?
From: Senoufou
Date: 31 Mar 17 - 06:46 AM

If the punctuation was thus:-

"What ye got in yer mout'? Me old cock?",

it would indeed imply something rather indecent!

Subject: RE: BS: What ye got in yer mout', me old cock?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 Mar 17 - 06:59 AM

Aye - You need to be pretty careful with your punctuation on that one.

Expression that I only heard when I met Mrs G. She was born just around the corner from me but our families seem to have some major linguistic differences.

"It's black o'er Bill's Mother's" Meaning the clouds are coming in and it looks like rain.

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: What ye got in yer mout', me old cock?
From: Will Fly
Date: 31 Mar 17 - 07:27 AM

Local to us: "Oi'm a Sussex pig - and I won't be druv!"

Subject: RE: BS: What ye got in yer mout', me old cock?
From: Senoufou
Date: 31 Mar 17 - 08:30 AM

A rather teasing greeting in Norfolk goes thus:-

"Ha yer fa' got a dickey bor? Dew, he hint got wun roit now!"

Translation:-

"Does your father have a donkey mate? If so, he hasn't got one at the moment!" (Meaning you're a donkey and have strayed from home)

Dave, here they say "Thass roit daaark o'er Will's muther's!"

Subject: RE: BS: What ye got in yer mout', me old cock?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 31 Mar 17 - 08:48 AM

When in a place where he's deliriously happy, the northerner may say "eeee, I could be bloody miserable 'ere!"

Subject: RE: BS: What ye got in yer mout', me old cock?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 31 Mar 17 - 12:08 PM

Things I learned to say to blend in in the south:

Might could/should ought, as in, I might could do that (this one actually made it onto that map of what your state is famous for), or, you shouldn'ta oughta done that

Store-boughten, as in, did you make it? No, it's store-boughten

Things we say because kids in our family said it and we liked it:

Clo = garment (the singular of clothes misperceived as plural)
DizEE = illness (the singular of disease, ditto)

Uck = stuck

And, my personal fave, Rup, which came from the following conversation:
Me: Aunt Mom's gone to Europe (Aunt Mom was what all our kids called our mom, who didn't want to be called Grandmother)
Twin A, after much thought: Is that my Rup *and* [Twin B]'s Rup?

Subject: RE: BS: What ye got in yer mout', me old cock?
From: gnu
Date: 31 Mar 17 - 12:46 PM

Indeed, punctuation in the thread title is of paramount importance. Without the comma, there is no 'joke' intended. With the comma, the joke is obvious, especially when accompanied by a wry smile from the speaker. If also accompanied by a 'nod and a wink', well ye moight be in fer a time, eh? Depends onna colour a yer skates, roight?

Subject: RE: BS: What ye got in yer mout', me old cock?
From: Thompson
Date: 01 Apr 17 - 02:26 AM

Dublin: "How's she cuttin'?" and in answer to that, "She's trimmin' well!" A nautical reference.

Subject: RE: BS: What ye got in yer mout', me old cock?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Apr 17 - 12:33 PM

My old man... That's like tryin' ta shove butter up a wildcat's ass with a red hot poker.

Subject: RE: BS: What ye got in yer mout', me old cock?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 01 Apr 17 - 02:10 PM

It's like trying to plait sand.

:D tG