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Fanny!

  • 06-01-2011 9:01pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    How come here it means a womans front bum.
    In America, it means a man OR a womans back bum?

    I also have an UNCLE :eek: called Fanny!

    And though I've never met Gerry Adams relation Fanny, him/her is supposed to be sweet!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    Yanks are backwards.




  • Gerry Adams has a sweet fanny on his face.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    lol, you said fanny.

    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    How come in America bum is also a hobo?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,097 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    When I was 13 I scored a girl called Fanny Dupis. True Story.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Your Uncle has the ghey.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 456 ✭✭Derfil


    Yeah it's weird.. Rememeber a yank falling on his ass one day and saying "oh my fanny hurts". And it was a bloke!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 352 ✭✭Goldenegg


    Remember the dreaded bum bags that were never stylish? Well they are called fanny packs in the states! We should have called them geebags!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Which reminds me, when I was last in America I saw a guy on the street with a fag in his mouth. :eek: No-one said a thing to him!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 855 ✭✭✭thebillynator


    Misleading thread title.......


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    I keep fags in my fanny pack.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    According to here it was gee before arse.
    "buttocks," 1920, Amer.Eng., from earlier British meaning "vulva" (1879), perhaps from the name of John Cleland's heroine in the scandalous novel "Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" (1748). The fem. proper name is a dim. of Frances. The genital sense is still the primary one outside U.S., but is not current in Amer.Eng., a difference which can have consequences when U.S. TV programs and movies air in Britain.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 447 ✭✭AntiMatter


    WindSock wrote: »
    According to here it was gee before arse.

    I think they have that arse-about-tit.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    their mad them americans, sure a knob is called an obama over there


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,723 ✭✭✭Cheap Thrills!


    I have sweet fanny adams to add to this thread.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Gucky wrote: »
    How come here it means a womans front bum.
    In America, it means a man our a womans back bum?

    I also have an UNCLE :eek: called Fanny!

    And though I've never met Gerry Adams relation Fanny, him/her is supposed to be sweet!

    He sounds like a right c*nt


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    AntiMatter wrote: »
    I think they have that arse-about-tit.


    I think you need to learn the difference of your arse from your elbow.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Frances


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    In my line of work interacting with many foreigners, that name Fanny has popped up a few times. I think its a popular German or Spanish first name, can't remember which :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    The-Rigger wrote: »
    Frances

    Frances McGee


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 447 ✭✭AntiMatter


    WindSock wrote: »
    I think you need to learn the difference of your arse from your elbow.

    Don't be giving me that cock and bull.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭galah


    Gucky wrote: »
    How come here it means a womans front bum.

    Front bum? Really? :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    goothar


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    AntiMatter wrote: »
    Don't be giving me that cock and bull.

    These puns are as delicate as a bull in a vagina shop.
    galah wrote: »
    Front bum? Really? :rolleyes:

    Yes. It looks like a bottom, only at the front. And smaller. For some. Unless you have a gunt.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,723 ✭✭✭Cheap Thrills!


    ^
    BOIIIINNNGGG!!! :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 447 ✭✭AntiMatter


    WindSock wrote: »
    These puns are as delicate as a bull in a vagina shop.

    At your cervix.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭Bonkers_xOx


    Remember that episode of The Simpsons where Marge is talking about Bart and Lisa's bum bags or something and says "Your fannys match!"? I snort every time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Growler, Snatch, Box, Gash, Beaver, Pussy, Minge, Muff, La La, Axe Wound, Crack, C*nt, Clam, beard


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 970 ✭✭✭dr ro


    their mad them americans, sure a knob is called an obama over there
    what's a Bush called then?


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    I think a vagina being referred to as a "front bum" is just ridiculous.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    I just refer to ass as back vagina.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


    Dr. Bill Cullen ponders over the very same thing at the end of this video:



    Edit: so you're in good company, OP.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    AntiMatter wrote: »
    At your cervix.


    Ehm...how vulvgar.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    What do you call a fanny on top of a fanny, on top of a fanny, on top of a fanny, on top of a fanny, etc etc etc etc?

    A,
    a block of flaps


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 447 ✭✭AntiMatter


    WindSock wrote: »
    Ehm...how vulvgar.

    Sorry. I just a little ovary-excited.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Hundred fannys in a bag?
    Clitoris all sorts


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


    Gucky wrote: »
    What do you call a fanny on top of a fanny, on top of a fanny, on top of a fanny, on top of a fanny, etc etc etc etc?

    A,
    a block of flaps

    The eyeful tower?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    AntiMatter wrote: »
    Sorry. I just a little ovary-excited.

    No worries, fellowpunian.....tube.
    Gucky wrote: »
    Hundred fannys in a bag?
    Clitoris all sorts

    Geebag.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭Fizman


    orourkeda wrote: »
    Growler, Snatch, Box, Gash, Beaver, Pussy, Minge, Muff, La La, Axe Wound, Crack, C*nt, Clam, beard

    One word defeats all of those.

    Clunge.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Fizman wrote: »
    One word defeats all of those.

    Clunge.

    Furry sausage wallet!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭2 stroke


    Fizman wrote: »
    One word defeats all of those.

    Clunge.

    Manhole.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    I keep fags in my fanny pack.


    I never took you for 'one'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,231 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Even Enid Blyton's Fanny got misinterpreted, not to mention her Dick.:(

    http://www.bookninja.com/?p=1096
    And in the Magic Faraway Tree stories, the names of characters Fanny and Dick have been altered to Frannie and Rick.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,651 ✭✭✭Captain Slow IRL


    zuroph wrote: »
    When I was 13 I scored a girl called Fanny Dupis. True Story.

    Fanny squared? (I can't do the little 2!)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,463 ✭✭✭Leftyflip




    Gateway to her guts?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭Fizman


    Love cave. :)


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,741 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Even Enid Blyton's Fanny got misinterpreted, not to mention her Dick.:(

    http://www.bookninja.com/?p=1096

    Fanny and Dick were in the Famous Five, not the Faraway Tree :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭stevejr


    their mad them americans, sure a knob is called an obama over there

    Ah come on now, BUSH was the real knob...

    What's the reason for being reasonable?

    Is that an unreasonable question?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Fanny is meant to mean rear bum. But when some fannys heard the word from a few tourists they didn't know what it meant and started using it wrongly. Over time people accepted the word to mean a womans front bum, technically called, gee.
    It's time to join the rest of the world and start using fanny for its proper meaning again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭stevejr


    technically called, gee.

    :pac: Classic

    What's the reason for being reasonable?

    Is that an unreasonable question?



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