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Kimia · 13-08-2010 4:03pm #1

I lol everytime I hear people going on about the head 'poncho'. Or when they're being 'pacific'. What other mad stuff have people heard?

Scarydoll · 13-08-2010 4:05pm

Head poncho?

Edit: I'm slow today lol

conorhal · 13-08-2010 4:06pm

Kimia wrote: »

I lol everytime I hear people going on about the head 'poncho'. Or when they're being 'pacific'. What other mad stuff have people heard?

I remember something about some eejit a while back there going on about claims that he misrepresented his finances to an ethics committee being all 'smoke and daggers'.....
:rolleyes:

Ian Beale · 13-08-2010 4:06pm

Your post, seriously no joke I have never heard that sort of thing before.

El Guapo! · 13-08-2010 4:06pm

Well theres a song that I always sing and dunno the words, ye know the one

"my love has got no money, he's got his trombeleeze..."

WTF is a trombeleeze???!!!!!!

Shelli2 · 13-08-2010 4:06pm

It's usually song lyrics that stick my head. I had a friend who sang the start of "Summer of 69" as :
"I had my first real sex dream".....changes the whole meaning of the song! LOL

Kimia · 13-08-2010 4:07pm

conorhal wrote: »

I remember something about some eejit a while back there going on about claims that he misrepresented his finances to an ethics committee being all 'smoke and daggers'.....
:rolleyes:

I know it's smoke and mirrors, but what's the other one.. something about daggers? I feel there's an actual saying that has been mixed up..

storm2811 · 13-08-2010 4:07pm

What does head poncho stand for?

My geography teacher used to say pacific instead of specific,don't know if it was intentional though.

Kimia · 13-08-2010 4:08pm

storm2811 wrote: »

What does head poncho stand for?

My geography teacher used to say pacific instead of specific,don't know if it was intentional though.

It should be 'head honcho', as in the boss or whatever.

El Guapo! · 13-08-2010 4:08pm

Kimia wrote: »

I know it's smoke and mirrors, but what's the other one.. something about daggers? I feel there's an actual saying that has been mixed up..

Cloak and Daggers

Kimia · 13-08-2010 4:09pm

I too am having a slow day. I LOVE that saying! I always imagine some hooded person a la Voldemort lurking in the shadows. But in a non-scary way.

Scarydoll · 13-08-2010 4:09pm

storm2811 wrote: »

What does head poncho stand for?

I think it means manager or something. For a bit there I was picturing a poncho type thing on the head lol

Milky Moo · 13-08-2010 4:11pm

Donie Cassidy while speaking in the Seanad praising the work of the Jekyll and Hyde foundation, he meant the Jack and Jill foundation.

THall04 · 13-08-2010 4:12pm

Dean09 wrote: »

Well theres a song that I always sing and dunno the words, ye know the one

"my love has got no money, he's got his trombeleeze..."

WTF is a trombeleeze???!!!!!!

It's "Strong Beliefs"

FLCP · 13-08-2010 4:13pm

Scarydoll wrote: »

I think it means manager or something. For a bit there I was picturing a poncho type thing on the head lol

Mate of mine used to say that she'd 'put the spanner amongst the pigeons', quality mixed metaphor.

E.T. · 13-08-2010 4:13pm

Chicargo. Why?

El Guapo! · 13-08-2010 4:15pm

THall04 wrote: »

It's "Strong Beliefs"

Oh I see.........

I still like my way better :pac:

FlutterinBantam · 13-08-2010 4:15pm

What the fook

chasm · 13-08-2010 4:15pm

Dean09 wrote: »

Well theres a song that I always sing and dunno the words, ye know the one

"my love has got no money, he's got his trombeleeze..."

WTF is a trombeleeze???!!!!!!

Damn, that song will be stuck in my head all day now!
Gala, freed from desire, oh and the lyrics are
"My love has got no money He's got his strong beliefs"....yours are better lol

foxyboxer · 13-08-2010 4:15pm

"In my Opingin" instead of Opinion :rolleyes:

NothingMan · 13-08-2010 4:15pm

Shelli2 wrote: »

It's usually song lyrics that stick my head. I had a friend who sang the start of "Summer of 69" as :
"I had my first real sex dream".....changes the whole meaning of the song! LOL

Not really. There's an interview with Brian Adams where he says 69 is not a year

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Essien · 13-08-2010 4:17pm

For all intensive purposes.........

Colonel Sanders · 13-08-2010 4:17pm

Billin & millin instead of Billion & million. Ned O'Keeffe being a serial offender

NothingMan · 13-08-2010 4:18pm

A friend of my exes thought it was "patience is avert you" thinking it meant patience was somehow avoiding you.

Kimia · 13-08-2010 4:20pm

I saw someone say in pearl instead of in peril. hehe

Cloak and dagger saying rocks. It reminds me of in Aladdin when Jafar is in disguise at the old crone man trying to get Aladdin to go into the cave for him.

FlutterinBantam · 13-08-2010 4:21pm

E.T. wrote: »

Chicargo. Why?

Chicargo can be lovely in Aurgust, just as Puncherstown can be in Spring.

Blancherstown however can be difficult to reach from Fizzboro especially if you are living in a Coporation house.

Why?

why?

Pure fcuking laziness, that's why.

mathepac · 13-08-2010 4:22pm

Kimia wrote: »

... but what's the other one.. something about daggers? ...

Cloak and dagger - spies, double-dealing, subterfuge, nefarious deeds, that sort of stuff.

Upset the apple tart (should be apple cart)
Wet my appetite (should be "whet" or sharpen my appetite)
I should of, a firm favourite on boards.ie (I should have)

Honcho is from the Japanese han = head + cho = team, giving team head or leader

(sorry some replied to already - web connection is like treacle today)

Long Term Louth · 13-08-2010 4:22pm

Scarydoll wrote: »

I think it means manager or something. For a bit there I was picturing a poncho type thing on the head lol

Head Honcho! Surley

THall04 · 13-08-2010 4:24pm

Dean09 wrote: »

Oh I see.........

I still like my way better :pac:

When that song came out first ,we had no such thing as Google and that feckin' "tromboleese" lyric drove me mental for several months.....

KeithM89_old · 13-08-2010 4:24pm

Up on a pedal stool...

foxyboxer · 13-08-2010 4:29pm

In Cork there was a church called "The Good Shepherds" who would take in orphans. It was a popular threat to children "Cop on, or I'll send ya to the Cuchepurds!"

Donkey Oaty · 13-08-2010 4:29pm

Dean09 wrote: »

Cloak and Daggers

The original Bertieism was in relation to deferring his pension and he said "playing smokes and daggers" so as well as the cloak and mirrors he may actually have been thinking of snakes and ladders.

Kimia · 13-08-2010 4:30pm

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

What the fook

Kimia · 13-08-2010 4:31pm

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

The original Bertieism was in relation to deferring his pension and he said "playing smokes and daggers" so as well as the cloak and mirrors he may actually have been thinking of snakes and ladders.

Also,

THall04 · 13-08-2010 4:31pm

When talking about Irish politics in the early eighties , english news readers used to talk about "Charles Hock-ey.....the Irish Tea-Shop"

Scarydoll · 13-08-2010 4:33pm

Keithm89 wrote: »

Up on a pedal stool...

You got that from the IT Crowd. Don't lie.

KeithM89_old · 13-08-2010 4:34pm

Scarydoll wrote: »

You got that from the IT Crowd. Don't lie.

Dont be such a damp squid

Donkey Oaty · 13-08-2010 4:38pm

Kimia wrote: »

Also,

I'll explain. This is from the Independent, November 6th 2007, and is the origin of the phrase "smokes and daggers".

Creating another so-called "Bertie-ism" to add to the list, Mr Ahern mangled his metaphors once again by saying deferring the payments would be "only be playing smokes and daggers".

Now, most people think that he confused "smoke and mirrors" and "cloak and dagger". I'm suggesting that he might have really had a three-way mix-up with "snakes and ladders".

Hope that clarifies it!

13-08-2010 4:42pm

Does the pope shlt in the woods?

Is the bear a catholic?

PostHack · 13-08-2010 5:00pm

foxyboxer wrote: »

In Cork there was a church called "The Good Shepherds" who would take in orphans. It was a popular threat to children "Cop on, or I'll send ya to the Cuchepurds!"

Another Cork one was; "The doctor sent me up to the Iron Throat...."

As in, the Eye, Ear and Throat (hospital).

D4NI3L88 · 13-08-2010 5:05pm

Nearly almost.

lemonjelly · 13-08-2010 5:08pm

My girlfriend goes to the hair saloon

ldxo15wus6fpgm · 13-08-2010 5:27pm

Had a friend in england who would call spaghetti "biscetti".
"catchup" instead of ketchup, I've heard so many people say this. Drives me up the wall.
There's many more I can't think of...

sron · 13-08-2010 5:36pm

Briana Large Spoonful wrote: »

Had a friend in england who would call spaghetti "biscetti".
"catchup" instead of ketchup, I've heard so many people say this. Drives me up the wall.
There's many more I can't think of...

Fun fact: When ketchup was first introduced to Britain, it went under a variety of different names: ketchup, catsup, catchup, etc. So it's not indefensible.

ldxo15wus6fpgm · 13-08-2010 5:41pm

sron wrote: »

Fun fact: When ketchup was first introduced to Britain, it went under a variety of different names: ketchup, catsup, catchup, etc. So it's not indefensible.

Yeah but they mean to say ketchup, and say catch up. As in I'd say "you mean ketchup?" and they'd say "yeah, catchup." :pac:

El Guapo! · 13-08-2010 6:19pm

On a kind of side-note, I really really hate it when a somebody (usually a news reporter) says Gardaí with a "th", like "Garthaí". WTF???

:mad:

ColaBeDamned · 14-08-2010 6:48am

Malapropisms

Have a good example that I heard recently- someone describing a really skinny person as emancipated, instead of emaciated

Dunjohn · 14-08-2010 9:12am

Dean09 wrote: »

Well theres a song that I always sing and dunno the words, ye know the one

"my love has got no money, he's got his trombeleeze..."

WTF is a trombeleeze???!!!!!!

THall04 wrote: »

It's "Strong Beliefs"

THANK you. No more shall I hear "humble niece."

take everything · 14-08-2010 10:19am

I was at an interview where the interviewer kept on saying "what are the primary tenants of..." instead of "what are the primary tenets of..."
It took everything to stop myself correcting him, or (more politely?) give him a nonsensical but literal answer about tenants.

What was so infuriating was how he wrongly used the word so confidently.
I mean seriously how do you confuse principles and people renting.

take everything · 14-08-2010 10:24am

Briana Large Spoonful wrote: »

Yeah but they mean to say ketchup, and say catch up. As in I'd say "you mean ketchup?" and they'd say "yeah, catchup." :pac:

I say tomayto, you say tomahto.

14-08-2010 10:28am

take everything wrote: »

I was at an interview where the interviewer kept on saying "what are the primary tenants of..." instead of "what are the primary tenets of..."
It took everything to stop myself correcting him, or (more politely?) give him a nonsensical but literal answer about tenants.

What was so infuriating was how he wrongly used the word so confidently.
I mean seriously how do you confuse principles and people renting.

Knowing me, I think I'd be sitting there twitching. I think I'd even risk the job because I'd have to correct him!!!
Or just say "tenets" very clearly a few times in your reply... :pac:

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