BS: V. Graham Norton -Can we snog after 9p in NYC?

Subject: BS: V. Graham Norton - Can we snog after 9p?
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 05:08 PM

Rog and I love watching V. Graham Norton's show on BBC America. There was an esp. funny episode rerun this week with Sarah Bernhard.

Graham started talking about words commonly used in the UK which are not well known in the US. After naming a few, he got onto "Snog." He said, in the office that week, they'd been ringing up bars in NYC asking if they allowed snogging. If one called and the person who answered put someone else on because they couldn't answer, then you'd had a good call.

Anyway, he made a call on the show to a bar in NYC called Morgan's. It was hilarious. He went on and on, eventually talking to four different people, embellishing his request with each one, asking if snogging was allowed, as he was meeting a friend there and they wanted to snog. He also asked if they had snogging booths and non-snogging booths; was snogging allowed after 9p.m.; would some of the employees like to snog with them? The last person said, "Snog? Isn't that kissing?" so the game was up.

For anyone who hasn't seen AND heard his show, I guess it probably loses something in the telling, but it did remind me of MORTICIA and her famous snogging threads which we haven't had much of lately and made me happy to be a Mudcatter 'cause I KNEW what he was on about!

Snog On, 'catters! And, thanks Mortee!!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: V. Graham Norton -Can we snog after 9p in NYC?
From: rangeroger
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 08:21 PM

You mean there are peple who don't know what it means? I snag several snogs by myself last night.

rr

Subject: RE: BS: V. Graham Norton -Can we snog after 9p in NYC?
From: JennyO
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 03:52 AM

Or should that be snugged....

Subject: RE: BS: V. Graham Norton -Can we snog after 9p in NYC?
From: Morticia
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 04:17 AM

you are more than welcome, Katdarlin'.....always willing to further the cause of anglo-american relationships *G*.....

Subject: RE: BS: V. Graham Norton -Can we snog after 9p in NYC?
From: GUEST,micca
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 06:21 AM

Especially if it involves snogs, Morty?

Subject: RE: BS: V. Graham Norton -Can we snog after 9p in NYC?
From: GUEST,pdc
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 02:15 PM

Okay, what is "snog"? A verb, as in "to snog"? A noun, as in "I can't get enough snog"? Adjective -- "that's a real snog coat you're wearing"?

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Subject: RE: BS: V. Graham Norton -Can we snog after 9p in NYC?
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 03:15 PM

pdc, to suss it out, you have to go to the Source, the First Mudcat Snog of the Week Thread or, at least the earliest I could find. Spaw, was the lucky dog, er...'cat, er...fellah to receive that coveted award of the week, way back when!**BG**

Subject: RE: BS: V. Graham Norton -Can we snog after 9p in NYC?
From: LadyJean
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 10:50 PM

A friend of my mother's was staying at a resort in New Jersey, many years ago. Most of the hotels and restaurants had signs that said, "No Fags". Mother's friend thought this was an awfully queer way of banning cigarettes. (Pun always intended.)

Subject: RE: BS: V. Graham Norton -Can we snog after 9p in NYC?
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Jul 03 - 12:51 AM

Come again? (As you say, pun always intended.**BG**)

Subject: RE: BS: V. Graham Norton -Can we snog after 9p in NYC?
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 05 Jul 03 - 04:38 AM

Snogyakat - Samsnog

Subject: RE: BS: V. Graham Norton -Can we snog after 9p in NYC?
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Jul 03 - 10:43 AM

SnogyarightbackSamee....Snogykat:-)

Subject: RE: BS: V. Graham Norton -Can we snog after 9p in NYC?
From: Gray D
Date: 05 Jul 03 - 09:25 PM

Oh, behaaaaave!

Seems you're a way behind the times over there. Isaac Hayes was on Friday's show in the U.K. and it was a joy.

And you'd have to say "61? Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn, chillun!"

Watch out for it when it gets to the States.

Gray D

Subject: RE: BS: V. Graham Norton -Can we snog after 9p in NYC?
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Jul 03 - 07:33 AM

Graham Norton an expert on UK slang?. Graham hails from Cork, Ireland. Or "Cock" as some Englanders pronounce it. Now "cock" that's another word that can cause embarrasing misunderstanding between English speakers on both sides of the Atlantic. Graham is one of those Paddies that, after a few years in London, has become more English than the Limeys themselves. I maintain that the word 'snog' both noun and verb, is of Hiberno-English origin (admittedly with no scholastic backup). It most definitely does not mean 'kissing' - even though kissing is an integral part of the process.

Kissing and cuddling - kissing and caressing - smooching - coorting - jagging - shifting - any of a wide ranging form of romantic low level sexual activity between members (usually but not always) of the opposite sex. This does NOT (and this point is important, Mudcatters) include any contact with the genital area. Now I am fully aware that such behaviour is just folklore to the younger generation unemcumbered as they are with the sexual guilts of their elders. But wasn't it a great way of avoiding unwanted pregnancies and unsocial medical complaints even if it did drive some of us completely bonkers. And what tremendous moral fibre the girls of that far off era displayed - not the lads, they never had any morals. "Oh no please!" she would breathlessly exclaim if his hands strayed too far, "don't spoil a lovely night". Ah! happy memories.

Learaí

chomh sona leis an láib.

Subject: RE: BS: V. Graham Norton -Can we snog after 9p in NYC?
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 06 Jul 03 - 05:05 PM

The funniest Graham Norton, although he does grate on me, was Dustin Hoffman doing an impression of a Geordie Fireman, who had been on the Big Brother house -I have seen nothing quite like it before or since.