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Ok, who knows what posh means and what it pertains to? :smile:
 
Goes back to British oceanic travel in certain tropical area. Premium Tickets were stamped POSH for Port Out, Starboard Home to ensure a cool shady cabin both ways.
 
An old RR/Bentley chuaffer's manual demanded they must never drive with their arm resting out the window because it appears "untidy."
 
A silly singer wot married a footballer. :devilgrin:

I just spent too much time watchin' The Two Ronnies. I gotta stop hittin' those links. :shocked:
 
Silverghost said:
Ok, who knows what posh means and what it pertains to? :smile:
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Port Out Starboard Home. Refers to taking cruises where the side of the ship that faced land had the more expensive cabins.
 
DrEntropy said:
Alan's a naturalized Yankee Redneck!!! WOOHOO!!

....err....

YEEEE HAW!!!! :wink:
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Here in GA I had to learn redneck to speak with the locals. I was flying my tifosi flag when I had a F1 race on, and when my neighbor asked about it, I had informed him that I was watching F1. After explaining F1 to him, I was asked, "What do you mean that there's another type of racing besides NASCAR."



Naturally relations are a bit strained between my neighbor and I.
 
Simplify it for him. Tell him that there is a whole world of racing where the steering wheels turn BOTH ways...
 
DrEntropy said:
Alan's a naturalized Yankee Redneck!!! WOOHOO!!

....err....

YEEEE HAW!!!! :wink:
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Actually no joke my wife is known to regularly say <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]Where did I go wrong? I got a husband from 3000 miles away. If I'd <span style="font-style: italic">wanted</span> to marry a redneck I could have got one from just down the road...[/QUOTE]

It's so nice to feel appreciated
:laugh:
 
mehheh.

Yer sussed, mate! :laugh:
 
'n I'm chuff'd t' **** t'know ya! :thumbsup:
 
I'm not a redneck.
It takes me two days in the sun to just be white...
 
I'm lurkin' inna Shed.
 
Silverghost said:
Ok, who knows what posh means and what it pertains to? :smile:
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It's pikey for a half penny, ha'pny; meaning 'rich'.
 
" 'ad me foot off, ah did !"

exclaimed the old woman "in hospital" in Leeds, northern
England when we visiting the Mrs' mum "in hospital".

The old woamn had had her foot amputated due to diabetes.

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My father was a truck driver, and every year we'd take a vacation to England so he could get a tan on his other arm.
hehehehehe.
(can't remember offhand who told that one.)
Prize- Prise- yer right... Wot wif Spellin' nevver bein me strong point...
 
The "Port Out Starboard Home" was reputedly indicated on the tickets and chalked onto the baggage of P&O passengers going to India from the UK. Since the voyage was predominantly from East to West, this meant they'd be in a cabin on the North (or East through the Red Sea) or cool side of the ship both ways.

Sadly, I believe there is no surviving evidence to support this notion, and I think it's more likely to come from the English slang word "posh" which means a dandy or a toff if you prefer. I think the P&O thing gained credence due to it's publicity in the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

And, by the way, the Zborowski cars were called Chitty Bang Bang - only one Chitty. They all had Mercedes chassis.

Enough trivia for now!
 
Kenny gets the prize! Or should that be prise?! :laugh: Great list.
 
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