Canadians are bold aren't they? I snapped this picture yesterday outside the Canadian sports clothing shop 'Roots' - no, seriously, it is called Roots, like Kunta Kinte type of Roots, not boy body parts. Here, a toilet isn't called a toilet, but when it comes to lady bits, a beaver is most definately a beaver, even my brother-in-law Trevor can't leave it alone, I told him off and would have threatened to smack his bum only that would have been very creepy indeed even for an Englishwoman. Oh, they do have Bush pilots here too. Goodness knows what they do. Yeah, please don't tell me they fly planes into the forest, that would spoil it, although if you said they explored the interior, that might fit.Now yesterday, Alex was a bit taken aback, she let out a surprised giggle, at a big old sign on the Nature Park that said, 'Bees in the Bog'.
'They have bees in their bog here?' she asked, 'and they advertise it,'
'Er, yes and no, the toilet isn't called the bog here, the bees are in the...bog, peat bog...that's what the Nature Park is, it's a peat bog.'
'Oooooh.'
I guess I've kinda got used to that one.
I often wonder whether French people think it's funny when they come to England - well or Canada or any other English speaking country and see the sign 'SALE'. Sale of course means 'dirty' in French. I've asked several of them, and all but none said,
'But we know what it means, so we don't laugh.' One once said,
'And in any case, your shops are often dirty.'
Yes. The French sense of humour must be more highly evolved than ours because they certainly used to laugh at the scatalogical, of course, that was in the 16th century.
Ah well, they say that little things please little minds, but heck a BIG beaver sale, now THAT's funny, but I know what could make it even funnier - if someone complained about it being politically incorrect. That would totally rock. It would almost be worth doing - just for the crack you understand..no, not THAT kind of crack, it's AN EXPRESSION! *rolls eyes and raises eyebrows*.
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When the Guess Who made their first trip over to the UK for a tour back in the 70's, all the press seemed interested in was that the guitar player's name was Randy.
oh, and of course, in the frontier days in canada (prior to indoor plumbing) it would certainly be possible to have bees in any bog.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog
ur blog is much like u again, filthy cheeky and brilliant, well they are your meditations, like medications! ha
kitten xxxxx
Ah, I find myself realizing that the only slang I know is that which I read from Rowling's engaging tales, and the seeming obscenities which fly just under the radar in your writings.
For example, I just learned "snog" was basically making out, and "bog" must mean a toilet. Ahhhh, the British. What will they think of next? I imagine it will be something quite low-brow with a carelessly attributed title, rendering us Stateside unable to decipher the clever code properly, and being left out of the best jokes on Benny Hill (Benny Hinn's jokes, if there are any, are to be left alone anyway, though I'm not sure what his nationality may be).
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