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Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
I thought it was a UK/Australasian-only phrase, but I heard Vince Vaughn say it in Dodgeball. Have bollocks crossed the Atlantic?
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Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
obligatory gay joke
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Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
Don't you just hate it when the English go around messing with the English language. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
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Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
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Don't you just hate it when the English go around messing with the English language. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] This is an oxymoraaan. |
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Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
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Don't you just hate it when the English go around messing with the English language. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] We have to add a new word for every one that gets banned. Mack |
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Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
i say it cuz my former boss was a brit and it caught on. he had to explain the proper usages to me though; i didn't realize it had more than one meaning.
i will be over in the UK in a week, maybe i'll pick up some more fun lingo. |
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Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
yeah, to explain:
'the bollocks' (shortening of 'the dog's bollocks'== very good, best) 'bollocks' - rubbish, or testicles. I'm pretty sure only the latter has got to the Western colonies though. |
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Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
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yeah, to explain: 'the bollocks' (shortening of 'the dog's bollocks'== very good, best) 'bollocks' - rubbish, or testicles. I'm pretty sure only the latter has got to the Western colonies though. [/ QUOTE ] yeah, that's how he explained it too. i use both. mostly jokingly though, cuz noone ever knows what i am talking about. |
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Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
I take it from this that 'bollocks' isn't in common usage then?
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Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
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I take it from this that 'bollocks' isn't in common usage then? [/ QUOTE ] nope. [ QUOTE ] 'the bollocks' (shortening of 'the dog's bollocks'== very good, best) This should be easy for people here to remember, given it means the same thing as "the nuts". [/ QUOTE ] not really, it's more use like this: Patrick del Poker Grande: this new Coheed and Cambria CD is the [dog's] bollocks! this phrasing wouldn't really work with "the nuts" nor would you throw down your AA and yell "i've got the bollocks!" they're 2 different beasts. diebitter, do you agree? and by the way, where in england are you located? |
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