I think this must be an Americanism which I don' grasp.I did a search and came up with the usual.In UK we say paper bag and that can be used for ugly people. LOL
Can you explain what it means in the blog?
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Blot Brickworks
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03-26-2009 10:39
I know that LL seems so proud that they are now fully international and quite right.I have just read the blog and there are several references to brown bag .
I think this must be an Americanism which I don' grasp.I did a search and came up with the usual.In UK we say paper bag and that can be used for ugly people. LOL Can you explain what it means in the blog? _____________________
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Maureen Boccaccio
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03-26-2009 10:41
Haven't seen the blog, but it means when people meet for lunch and they all bring their own lunches from home..often in a brown bag
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Pserendipity Daniels
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03-26-2009 10:47
We used to grade women on a brown bag system in the good old days before you had to be politically correct.
No bags would be needed if she was pretty enough. One meant that you would have to put a brown bag over her face so it wouldn't put you off. Pep (Two meant you wore one yourself in case hers accidentally came off) _____________________
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Blot Brickworks
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03-26-2009 11:02
We used to grade women on a brown bag system in the good old days before you had to be politically correct. No bags would be needed if she was pretty enough. One meant that you would have to put a brown bag over her face so it wouldn't put you off. Pep (Two meant you wore one yourself in case hers accidentally came off) Right knew about that one and have often thought I needed it in the past. _____________________
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Osprey Therian
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03-26-2009 11:06
Usually means a casual working lunch meeting.
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Pserendipity Daniels
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03-26-2009 11:11
Usually means a casual working lunch meeting. Pep (This comment self-censored) _____________________
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Blot Brickworks
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03-26-2009 11:59
Right I've got it now.
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Key MacMoragh
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03-26-2009 12:08
I did a search and came up with the usual. When you search for definitions, you can google (for example) "define: brown bag" which would have yielded (out of three choices) "A short presentation or seminar on a given subject, especially one given at lunchtime..." Speaking of incomprehensible transpondine stuff, I read Enid Blyton's books to my daughter at night and she has been extravagantly puzzled by some turns of phrase such as eating tea swotting for classes sponge for pudding ticking someone off and many others. (Here, that last one would mean making someone angry, not telling them off.) |
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Naz Fride
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03-26-2009 12:19
Bob's yer uncle!
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Lexxi Gynoid
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03-26-2009 12:19
When you search for definitions, you can google (for example) "define: brown bag" which would have yielded (out of three choices) "A short presentation or seminar on a given subject, especially one given at lunchtime..." Speaking of incomprehensible transpondine stuff, I read Enid Blyton's books to my daughter at night and she has been extravagantly puzzled by some turns of phrase such as eating tea swotting for classes sponge for pudding ticking someone off and many others. (Here, that last one would mean making someone angry, not telling them off.) Last one could also mean something along the lines of a checklist. Ticking their name off. Ticking someone off for being present, or something like that. _____________________
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Lexxi Gynoid
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03-26-2009 12:19
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Key MacMoragh
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03-26-2009 12:21
Last one could also mean something along the lines of a checklist. Ticking their name off. Ticking someone off for being present, or something like that. True - and in England I think they use tickboxes rather than checkboxes, because they put ticks in the boxes. Here, ticks are little buggers. |
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Lexxi Gynoid
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03-26-2009 12:23
True - and in England I think they use tickboxes rather than checkboxes, because they put ticks in the boxes. Here, ticks are little buggers. Wonder if they call it a ticklist then, instead of a checklist. _____________________
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Key MacMoragh
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03-26-2009 12:39
Wonder if they call it a ticklist then, instead of a checklist. /me shakes her head Who knows what they get up to, over there? |
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03-26-2009 12:46
I'd never heard the term before this morning myself, so I Googled it as soon as I saw it. This is what I found:
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Feral Mistwalker
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03-26-2009 13:04
ticking someone off I thought this was common, I hear it all the time in California. |
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LittleToe Bartlett
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03-26-2009 15:32
ticking someone off I never realized that I thought this, but I always assumed (on a subconscious level, I suppose) that it meant "making someone so angry as to induce facial tics". |
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Oryx Tempel
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03-26-2009 16:20
For the longest time I didn't know what "couldn't be arsed" meant. And I'm still sort of confused on "taking the piss"... hopefully I'm saying it right?
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Ronaldo McMahon
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03-26-2009 16:45
I'm too pissed to take the piss.
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Ciaran Laval
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03-26-2009 17:25
This reminds me of a Boney M record.
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Lexxi Gynoid
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03-26-2009 17:33
For the longest time I didn't know what "couldn't be arsed" meant. And I'm still sort of confused on "taking the piss"... hopefully I'm saying it right? To take the piss is a British slang expression meaning to mock, tease, ridicule or scoff.[1] Take the mickey (or variations) are euphemistic ways of conveying this expression where the word "piss" may be vulgar. other one: couldn't be bothered; "depending on which definition of eligible voter employed, total turnout about 65%. 1 in 3 americans couldn't be arsed to vote” _____________________
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03-26-2009 17:37
To take the piss is a British slang expression meaning to mock, tease, ridicule or scoff.[1] Take the mickey (or variations) are euphemistic ways of conveying this expression where the word "piss" may be vulgar. other one: couldn't be bothered; "depending on which definition of eligible voter employed, total turnout about 65%. 1 in 3 americans couldn't be arsed to vote” I always liked "Spitting the dummy". The first time I heard "He spat the dummy" I almost took the piss in my pants. _____________________
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Oryx Tempel
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03-26-2009 17:42
To take the piss is a British slang expression meaning to mock, tease, ridicule or scoff.[1] Take the mickey (or variations) are euphemistic ways of conveying this expression where the word "piss" may be vulgar. other one: couldn't be bothered; "depending on which definition of eligible voter employed, total turnout about 65%. 1 in 3 americans couldn't be arsed to vote” So how is it used? Say George is teasing Harry... is George taking the piss on Harry? Sounds icky... |
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03-26-2009 17:43
err.. Sorry but my definition of brown bagging is "hanging out in the street drinking booze from a brown paper bag"
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03-26-2009 17:45
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