Aussie Strine.....

[Aussie Annie]

We have a weird way of talking over here sometimes, it's calles "aussie strine" OR rhyming lingo!!

What silly one's have you heard

 

cheese & kisses...missus

dog & Bone.......phone

septic tank.......yank

niagara falls.....balls (s'cuse me)

 

[Yammer Dan]

Now i am confused!!

[autopilot]

Navy guys refer to the bathroom as "the head". (never quite understood that) I use the term myself even though I wasn't in the Navy. Evidently picked it up from my brother, who was.

[mini-muffin]

The head is the reference to where the potty hole use to be way back in the day. Here's a full description for ya.

The use of the term "head" to refer to a ship's toilet dates to at least as early as 1708, when Woodes Rogers (English privateer and Governor of the Bahamas) used the word in his book, A Cruising Voyage Around the World. Another early usage is in Tobias Smollett's novel of travel and adventure, Roderick Random, published in 1748. "Head" in a nautical sense referring to the bow or fore part of a ship dates to 1485. The ship's toilet was typically placed at the head of the ship near the base of the bowsprit, where splashing water served to naturally clean the toilet area.

 

Aren't ya glad you asked?

 

Margaret

[Aussie Annie]

Geez, you think we are weird. This thread went from funny lingo, to talkin' about ancient toilets on sailing ships!! strange...very strange

[oldgoat]

ok get your mind out of the gutter

but i will knock you up means i will call you in england

[Wanderer]

ok get your mind out of the gutter

but i will knock you up means i will call you in england

 

I 'spose if we was in England, but we're not. Any way all that head talk is just a bunch of scuttle butt.

[Yammer Dan]

So it was all them phone calls that got me in trouble??

[gunboat]

how about get me some water line, or a bucket of blue steam.

reguards

don c.

[slick97spirit]

:bang head:Give it up Annie. Looks like they're trying, but you guys definately talk differently that we do.

[hillrider]

I found the Blue Steam, they keep it back near the rudder bearings. But I was to big to fit the hatch.

[massey130]

:bang head:Give it up Annie. Looks like they're trying, but you guys definately talk differently that we do.

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i will give it a try -

 

Adam and Eve - believe

 

Christmas crackers - knackers

[MikeWa]

On a sailing ship the wind comes from behind. Piss off the back in a stiff breeze and..well you get the picture. So the area of the bow where the forestay connects the masthead to the bowspirit was used. Kept the wind at your back.

Mike

[massey130]

nails and screws - news

near and far - bar

[Renne]

We have a weird way of talking over here sometimes, it's calles "aussie strine" OR rhyming lingo!!

What silly one's have you heard

 

cheese & kisses...missus

dog & Bone.......phone

septic tank.......yank

niagara falls.....balls (s'cuse me)

 

" Well, they tanned 'me' hide when I died Clyde an' that's in hang'in on the shed" !

 

Renne....If I only had a 'Roo",,,maybe 2 !:crackup:

[Condor]

Hey... I can speak Aussie....

Plates of Meat..... Feet..