Hi Celtoid! Welcome. Have you considered putting say a Gen or Feadog body on your Sindt head?
Walton Mellow Ds are pants. 
On 2003-01-31 13:13, burnsbyrne wrote:
Martin,
Thanks for the translation. It sounds very logical now that I know the origin. I think you-all on that side of the pond are more versed in N American slang than we are in British slang because of the influence of American movies and TV. However, I have picked up “brilliant” from watching Premier League football on the telly.
Mike
Mike and Zoob,
You’re right, we get a lot of American slang through TV. Item 17c on my secret life agenda is to spread British slang into American usage through the medium of the C&F board - and I have full Crystal People support in this.
Beware though, sometimes I make up my own expressions and slip them into posts, so you may re-use a ‘well known’ British Phrase and get blank looks.
All part of the service. 
I’m still enjoying “he’s all mouth and trousers!”
I picked that up on another bulletin board.
I do have a Feadog, and maybe I will…just a bit uncomfortable about messing with the Sindt, since otherwise I like it a lot. Waltons may be pants, but it was my first whistle, and so its an old friend. I have a very bad generation that is truly pants even my cat hates it and puts her ears back.
Even I put my ears back.
On 2003-01-31 13:13, burnsbyrne wrote:
…However, I have picked up “brilliant” from watching Premier League football on the telly.
Mike
I learnt the “pants” usage from English football websites. As in, “so-and-so (team or player) was pants”.
On 2003-01-31 12:24, Walden wrote:
My sister drove down to the DFW area not too long ago. The driving, out there, rather traumatized her.
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Try driving through Tennessee sometime…now THAT’S trauma! No offense of course to anybody here from Tenn., but I’ve had more crazy encounters, people trying to run me off the road, people mooning me through the passenger window (yes, this did happen, outside of Nashville), in Tennessee than anywhere else in the US, and I’ve done a lot of driving in my day. And yes, the DFW area is nuts too.
R.
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I learned to drive on those East Texas red clay backroads
And I mean to tell you my friend
They weren’t no easy roads
You had to watch out for all the curves
Down by Kelsey Creek
And detour through the Lindsay’s pasture
When the water ran too deep
(Double marks for anyone recognizing the quote)
(It’s not true, I learned to drive on the Isle of Wight – “Every summer we could rent a cottage…”)
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Michelle Shocked, though I don’t remember the song title.
Take care, Johnz
On 2003-01-31 12:16, Martin Milner wrote:
In Britain we call pants trousers, and underpants (shorts?) are called pants (for short). Golly, now I’m confused. So in a roundabout way my city is a pair of underpants, i.e. a load of rubbish.
Puts the term ‘pants man’ in quite a different light, doesn’t it?
I forget who first coined the expression.
No you don’t Martin. You did. 
On 2003-01-31 13:21, Zubivka wrote:
Martin, thanks for the translation and.. background.I feel smarter to-night. I learnt why London is pants… with skidmarks. >
YEAH,skid marks like Marsbars! PS-there was a British pop/punk band in the late 70’s called ‘The Skids’…I think they went down the pan though.
[ This Message was edited by: kevin m. on 2003-02-01 08:51 ]
London britches,
Falling snow,
Falling snow,
Falling snow,
London britches,
Falling snow,
My fair lady?
On 2003-01-31 22:49, spittin_in_the_wind wrote:
…people mooning me through the passenger window (yes, this did happen, outside of Nashville), in Tennessee than anywhere else in the US…
I’d be more concerned if it had been through the driver window 
Mooning out of a car window would certainly make you ‘rosy cheeked’ in Britain at the moment 
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On 2003-02-01 09:19, kevin m. wrote:
Mooning out of a car window would certainly make you ‘rosy cheeked’ in Britain at the moment >
Mooning eh? This wouldn’t be what we Aussies call ‘giving someone the brown eye’ would it? If it is I should add that it’s a favourite Maori insult.
A friend of mine, Walter Coppedge, who passed away several years ago was a lawyer. He had long hair, wore tie-dye shirts and actually hung his shingle in a bar called “The Star Bar”. It still hangs there. It is in a very ecclectic part of town called Little 5 Points. We spent many a sunday drinking booze and solving the world’s problems.
He was a really great guy. He often would take cases nobody wanted… Homeless people, indigents, etc. Unfortunately, he died right after being promoted to assistant DA. When he died he was cremated and we had his funeral at a bar down the street called The Yacht Club and had his wake at the Star Bar.
At the funeral, one of the waiters from the Star Bar told a story about a friend of his who was arrested for indecent exposure for mooning someone he knew out of his car window. The incident was witnessed by a policeman who happened to be right there. This particular fellow who hung the moon was very thin. He was also very broke.
Anyway, Walter took the case pro bono. The policeman who arrested this guy was in the courtroom and the case against him was clear. So Walter with a perfectly straight face pleaded not guilty on behalf of his client. The Judge pointed out that the cop saw him do it etc… did he want to change his plea? No, said Walter. My client couldn’t have shot a moon. He asked the guy to stand up and turn around. “You see”, said Walter, “my client has no ass.”
The judge and the cop looked at eachother and everyone in the courtroom broke out in laughter. The case was dismissed. True story!
Atta atorney!
Great: I’m skinny enough to qualify for this have-no-ass corpus, too!
I think he would have had to use a different defense for me!
On 2003-02-02 11:39, jeffmiester wrote:
hmm, martin, since we’re already talking about british slang, I have a question. I sometimes watch “red dwarf” on pbs here, and I heard the phrase “smeg head” used. what does that mean, and what is a smeg anyway? I’m assuming that it’s not too bad since it was on pbs after all.cheers,
jeff
Jeff,
Actually this is so incredibly dirty, disgusting and crude I’m going to have to tell you in a private message for fear of getting banned from the board for such utterances - so check yor private messages.
Edited to add that the name of one of the characters is a reference to a deviant sexual practise of which I am not prepared to say more here. They get away with a heck of a lot on Red Dwarf, probably because the powers that be in the BBC are a bunch of crusty old fogeys who aren’t up with current parlance.
Fun chatting with y’all on Saturday!
“Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.”
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On 2003-01-31 18:34, gitchel wrote:
I’m still enjoying “he’s all mouth and trousers!”
I picked that up on another bulletin board.
The next level of friendly insult is “he’s all mouth and NO trousers!!”
looks like I missed all this fun over the weekend, but someone parked a 40ton digger on our wood shed and outside wc! 
Richard - snow what snow!!
___spellings what spellings
rbm, in the wilds of the English Lake District, where the fells stand hidden in the grey murk of winter.
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On 2003-01-31 09:32, Wombat wrote:
BTW, do the natives still favour mopeds? Almost as cool as those three-wheeler invalid cars. It was not enough just to have a disability. Your reward was to get a vehicle that was not only humiliating but also completely unsafe.
It’s been a long time hasn’t it Wombie? Haven’t seen those counfounded little pale blue invalid thingies since the 1980s (or mopeds come to that. You want mopeds, go to Paris and Rome). Why drive an invalid car when your invalid mates are causing havoc in normal cars?!
I have a friend who left work in Hendon at 5:30pm on Thursday and got home to Barnet at 1:30 Friday morning (those of you familiar with north London suburbs will see the crassness in that one). The whole system here is pants - just WHY does it happen every time? I remember as a kid in the 60s it was the same, we can’t blame it on any particular government. The whole thing’s bollocks in my book. Still, I got an extra night in to practice…