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Posted on entry Also, "stuff it" doesn't mean exactly the same thing as "get stuffed" ::: June 18, 2007, 03:34 AM:
#160 Jeremy: One may whine for (or after, meaning the same) a cup of tea, but one would never whinge for it.
Posted on entry Also, "stuff it" doesn't mean exactly the same thing as "get stuffed" ::: June 17, 2007, 02:01 PM:
I'm pretty certain that "stuff it" doesn't mean remotely the same thing as "get stuffed", but what do I know?

Personally, I'd be more likely to say "soddit" than the former anyway.

I'm not sure if it's an Englishism, but, although I've never come across "waiting on line" before this thread, I've certainly used "I'm waiting on a phone call/Joe Bloggs" to mean I'm waiting for the event/person. If I'm waiting until the pubs open, then I'm waiting while they open. But I'm from Yorkshire and we're contrary buggers in that county.
Posted on entry Dives and Lazarus ::: September 14, 2005, 08:51 PM:
Bill Norrie has some rather spiffy rhymes in it. Particular favourites are rhyming 'silver grey' with 'young Billy'; 'womb' with 'stone'; 'virginity' with 'young Billy' and, possibly most spectacularly of all, 'door' with 'in'.

It all hangs together wonderfully well though.
Posted on entry Dives and Lazarus ::: September 14, 2005, 11:29 AM:
The version of Tamlyn that rhymes 'lion or a snake' with 'father of your child' seems to have conflated two versions. The version I sing rhymes 'snake' with 'one of God's own make' and 'lion roaring wild' with 'father of her/your child'.

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