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

17 Feb 03 - 06:34 PM (#892508)
Subject: BS: Chance would be a fine thing if...
From: GUEST,sorefingers

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?


17 Feb 03 - 07:27 PM (#892545)
Subject: RE: BS: Chance would be a fine thing if...
From: Bill D

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


17 Feb 03 - 09:26 PM (#892615)
Subject: RE: BS: Chance would be a fine thing if...
From: Neighmond

they could, but why bother?


17 Feb 03 - 09:43 PM (#892622)
Subject: RE: BS: Chance would be a fine thing if...
From: Mr Happy

whats the ethnicity of the 'native' residents?


17 Feb 03 - 10:39 PM (#892660)
Subject: RE: BS: Chance would be a fine thing if...
From: mack/misophist

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


17 Feb 03 - 10:42 PM (#892667)
Subject: RE: BS: Chance would be a fine thing if...
From: Ebbie

Sorry- who's Wally?


17 Feb 03 - 11:20 PM (#892683)
Subject: RE: BS: Chance would be a fine thing if...
From: Stilly River Sage

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


18 Feb 03 - 01:53 AM (#892721)
Subject: RE: BS: Chance would be a fine thing if...
From: mack/misophist

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


18 Feb 03 - 02:13 AM (#892725)
Subject: RE: BS: Chance would be a fine thing if...
From: Cluin

"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.


18 Feb 03 - 12:27 PM (#892794)
Subject: RE: BS: Chance would be a fine thing if...
From: Bill D

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.


18 Feb 03 - 06:41 PM (#893119)
Subject: RE: BS: Chance would be a fine thing if...
From: GUEST,sorefingers

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'


18 Feb 03 - 07:59 PM (#893182)
Subject: RE: BS: Chance would be a fine thing if...
From: Liz the Squeak

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