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Astonishing what you can find on the web these days.

Bingo stop monkeying around!

marty wrote:Bingo stop monkeying around!

But that's my job, Marty. Did you never see me on the Banana Splits?

ROFLMAO Bingo

Englishangel,

Please decrypt your latest message - ROFMAO (or whatever)

Whatever turns you on !!

'Arse', please, not 'Ass' - we are British after all....

Richard Ruck wrote:'Arse', please, not 'Ass' - we are British after all....

Don't make a donkey of yerself !

Call it what you will, anything I can do including ROFL to reduce it will do for me.

I lived in US for 4 years and son had to translate onec when I asked for a ham and tomaaaato sandwich.

englishangel wrote:Call it what you will, anything I can do including ROFL to reduce it will do for me.

I lived in US for 4 years and son had to translate onec when I asked for a ham and tomaaaato sandwich.

I had huge problems in California when all the restaurants offered me "Super Salad". Answering "yes, please!" just left them totally confused.

palgsm93 wrote:The Americans have got it right calling the toilet the john:
“I’m going to the john” is so much more elegant than saying “I’m going to the bog”

But why do they call them rest rooms? Do they sleep on the john regularly?

or bathrooms, I know we women spend a long time in there but taking a bath, I don't think so

Or toilet, Angel. I suspect that the main purpose of your entry therein may not be to adjust your toilet either.

Come to think of it lavatory is something of a misnomer. The wash room?? At least that may be so if my latin is not too rusty.

No, I think "bog" is OK, tho' in our family "loo" is the polite word. However, I regret that our boys are not too polite and tend to be more graphic about the real occasion of their visit.

PS Why on earth did my parents refer to it as "Freddy"? Was he any relation to John?

From "A Gentleman's English Dictionary and Usage" -

Khazi

Slang term for lavatory.

Although crapper, long-drop, head, cottage, WC, office and throne are all acceptable, the Raj connotations of 'Khazi', plus the fact that it is usually pronounced in tones redolent of Sid James in 'Carry On Up The Khyber', makes it the preferred term.

This is my personal favourite - for some reason, though, it baffles American bar-staff......

'Head', I think, only applies to a khazi on a boat or ship. Perhaps one of our seafaring posters might confirm this.

'Cottage' ? I don't think we should even think about this one. We'll be getting into George Michael territory.

I remember the first time I was in the annexe of the Infirmary at Hertford. The doors were marked 'Bathroom', 'WC' and 'Toilet'. Two washbasins in the Toilet and none in the WC.

It makes me cringe now that sick girls had to go through 2 doors to wash their hands after using the loo.

Absolutely! Heads it is on the boat (there should be some pun here about tails you loose, I think - tho it is too early in the morning for my brain).

The origin of the term comes, I think, from the old sailing ships which, being largely square rigged (and therefore usually sailing downwind), had a useful "dropping" point from the cat heads (the beam protruding from a little aft of the bowsprit whence the anchor was shipped). Thus the jolly tar would go for'ard to the heads to do his business so that the outgoings (with any accompanying smells) were carried off downwind. The senior officers of course had other arrangements.

I should add that these days it is considered the height of bad manners to vomit or pee to weather when invited aboard a friend's yacht for a sail. The blow back not only affects the perpetrator, but often other members of the crew as well - which can be most disagreeable for all concerned.