BS: Chance would be a fine thing if...

Subject: BS: Chance would be a fine thing if...
From: GUEST,sorefingers
Date: 17 Feb 03 - 06:34 PM

When the nunber of starstruck white male residents (Poms and Ozzies) now in Los Angeles California exceeds the number or native residents,

should we call Hollywood

Wallyhood?

Subject: RE: BS: Chance would be a fine thing if...
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Feb 03 - 07:27 PM

?? I don't understand WHAT that is supposed to mean.....can you be less obtuse?

Subject: RE: BS: Chance would be a fine thing if...
From: Neighmond
Date: 17 Feb 03 - 09:26 PM

they could, but why bother?

Subject: RE: BS: Chance would be a fine thing if...
From: Mr Happy
Date: 17 Feb 03 - 09:43 PM

whats the ethnicity of the 'native' residents?

Subject: RE: BS: Chance would be a fine thing if...
From: mack/misophist
Date: 17 Feb 03 - 10:39 PM

The natives are 'Angelenos' Should shch a situation arise they might be called 'Angloenos'.

Subject: RE: BS: Chance would be a fine thing if...
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Feb 03 - 10:42 PM

Sorry- who's Wally?

Subject: RE: BS: Chance would be a fine thing if...
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Feb 03 - 11:20 PM

I can't make sense of this one, sorefingers.

Subject: RE: BS: Chance would be a fine thing if...
From: mack/misophist
Date: 18 Feb 03 - 01:53 AM

I think it's a pun. The Indian film industry is, I bekieve, centered in Mumbai and is ofter referred to as Bollywood.

Subject: RE: BS: Chance would be a fine thing if...
From: Cluin
Date: 18 Feb 03 - 02:13 AM

"Wally", it's a name used as a term of disparagement in Britain. Sort of like calling somebody a "Melvin" or a "Seymour" or some other nerdy name.

Subject: RE: BS: Chance would be a fine thing if...
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Feb 03 - 12:27 PM

LOL...I think we need a new category to label certain posts--BritSpeak would do, but "BS" is already taken

....wait...maybe we DON'T need a new one...*grin*

we in the colonies don't use nearly so many colloquialisms per mile of text, I suspect.

Subject: RE: BS: Chance would be a fine thing if...
From: GUEST,sorefingers
Date: 18 Feb 03 - 06:41 PM

Shucks wasn't meant to be like this, so heres nother one...

Spanish looking guy taken into custody, but has amnesia. Cops are about to write him up as John Doe when he asks 'if you don't mind gents, it's Don Joe'

Subject: RE: BS: Chance would be a fine thing if...
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Feb 03 - 07:59 PM

Bill D, you really need to check out what you post.... I've been in conversations with Americans where I've not understood more than 1 word in 20, partly because of the colloquialisms and partly because they were from Queens.

LTS