I was reading about Project Runway and this one designer who always shows a lot of her own ribcage in the fashions she designs for herself. And it was mentioned that she wears pasties. So, being kind of unclear I did a google search and found:

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So... depending on where you're at, its a quaint recipe for a portable meat pie or its something you wear to cover your nipples.

I had a laugh over that one.

I learned of this when I lived in Upper Michigan. When we talked about having a meat pie, our parents went nuts. Until they found out that we weren't talking about nipple coverings.

A Brit guy might say "I'm going to go and knock up my girlfriend" which means he's going to her home and knock on the door :) .

Im from SoCal and when a friend from Wisconsin came to visit we went to this mexican food place (Oscars or Albertos or Filbertos, etc) and I asked her if she wanted any fish tacos because they were GREAT at this particular place. She turned to my friend who nodded his agreement and confirmed that this place makes amazing fish tacos.

The look of horror on her face only matched mine of confusion until I understood what she thought I was talking about. I never let her forget it either.

Always cracks me up.

But now im sad living in michigan because food I took for granted as being "common" is hard as hell to find here. "Mexican cuisine" gets a single shelf at most places here and nobody knows what refried beans are. :eusa_booh

Michigan chile leaves much to be desired as well.

LOL! Yeah, fish tacos are FOOD where I live. :p I never would have imagined they were slag for genatalia until I heard about the restaurant called "The Pink Taco" and people objecting to the name, on The Daily Show, of course.

You never heard 'tuna taco' when you were a kid?

You never heard 'tuna taco' when you were a kid?
Nope. Not a phrase in my era.

On the other hand, California never had apples and cider or salt water taffey like Michigan does =P

Huh?!? We grow apples in CA. Even in So. CA. :) In fact, there's a little town just outside San Diego known for it's annual apple festival.

We pretty much have it all here. :D

Huh?!? We grow apples in CA. Even in So. CA. :) In fact, there's a little town just outside San Diego known for it's annual apple festival.

We pretty much have it all here. :D

...I'm forced to eat Californian apples during the spring and summer here.

No thanks.

I'll take good old Mid-West apples during fall over that crap any day of the week.

And do you really think Michigan doesn't have Mexican food? I mean, come on. Surely you aren't that stupid.

If Mexican food back east is anything like it was when I lived out there... No, you don't have Mexican food. Blech!

Nope. Not a phrase in my era.

aybe 'area' is the word which is more accurate.

It is funny when these different meanings will crop up. Years ago my husband had an employee call to say he was going to have to return home rather than complete some sales calls because he had been in a minor accident and he couldn't get his clean clothes out of his boot. My husband was trying to figure out what in the world he meant when something else he said let him know he was talking about the trunk of the car. They have boots and bonnets rather than trunks and hoods there. Also being pissed down here (TX) means we are angry, it means being drunk to our Scottish friends :).

Also being pissed down here (TX) means we are angry, it means being drunk to our Scottish friends :).

Hey... wait a minute. Being pissed doesn't mean being drunk in the U.S.? In Canada it means being drunk. If you're really drunk, you say 'I'm pissed out of my mind.' It can also mean being angry, but the phrase is usually 'pissed off'.

We say both when talking about being angry. I've not heard any Texans use pissed to mean drunk but then I might not be hanging with the right crowd ;). But yes, we say something really pissed us off or that we are really pissed about something interchangeably. For drunk do you guys say loaded or wasted too? (Lol, I'm probably showing my age here).

Hey... wait a minute. Being pissed doesn't mean being drunk in the U.S.? In Canada it means being drunk. If you're really drunk, you say 'I'm pissed out of my mind.' It can also mean being angry, but the phrase is usually 'pissed off'.
The "off" in pissed off is often dropped. :p Yeah, I don't hear pissed used much hear to describe drunkeness.

I have heard both Brits and 'Mericans use the term...

Piss off


Like go f yourself.

Doesn't Sod off and Piss off mean the same to Brits.

Sod off obviously comes from sodomy, I dunno.

I can see how pissed evolved for being drunk, that one is obvious for any who has gotten really really drunk.

When I was a young teen our youth choir tour went into Canada as one of our stops. We were ordering burgers the first place we stopped for a meal there and I asked the lady to please "cut the onions", she quickly informed me that they always chopped their onions!

Uh... cut the onions would be "chop the onions" to me too. :p I'd say "hold the onions".

Now I'm laughing about my visual image of a whole onion on a hamburger. :lol:


I can see how pissed evolved for being drunk, that one is obvious for any who has gotten really really drunk.
Ugh! Thank god I've never been that drunk.

We say both when talking about being angry. I've not heard any Texans use pissed to mean drunk but then I might not be hanging with the right crowd ;). But yes, we say something really pissed us off or that we are really pissed about something interchangeably. For drunk do you guys say loaded or wasted too? (Lol, I'm probably showing my age here).

Being 'loaded' usually means you are rich. When referring to a 'loaded' baby, it means that their diapers are full :) . A 'loaded' car has all the accessories. A 'loaded' gun means run :frocket: .

Wasted refers to drunk or high on drugs. Stoned used to mean drunk but now means high on drugs.

Loaded can me drunk in the US. :p "Loaded with alcohol".

Ok, speaking of stones...

I have heard someone say they "rocked the dog" to mean they threw rocks at the dog. That one twisted my mind in all kinds of bad ways. I could accept "stoned the dog" since "stoning" is a punishment meted out in history.

Thicket we use loaded in all those ways as well :). Also, if someone is "loaded for a bear" they are really pissed off, lol. But at least when you are down here trying out all the beers everyone recommended you'll know why people ask why if you say you are pissed!

Pan, it's too bad that poor dog couldn't "rock" them back! I wonder if it's an oddity here to use "cut" instead of "hold" when ordering food? I've never encountered anyone else not knowing what I meant while ordering in other states.

You're Texan, Lauran? That's like a whole 'nother country. "Loaded for a bear". Never heard it!

I remember a friend of mine took along a book of "phrases" used in New Orleans when we went to visit. That was hilarious.

Guilty as charged Pan :). We do have some sayings here that are probably not heard much elsewhere. Now I'm wondering about all of those New Orleans phrases, do you happen to remember any of them?

No, but you can find anything on the Internet!
http://www.bootsnall.com/namericatravelguides/nawlins/jul01orleans.shtml

I always loved listening to Ann Richards speak. She used language so colorfully!

Ok, give us some coliquialisms!

Thanks Pan, for the link, that will be fun to read over. I found this, many of these I've never heard anyone say but some we sure use :).

http://www.baetzler.de/humor/texan_sayings.html

Hard rains are gully washers or frog stranglers....lol I better stop, you will think we've all gone 'round the bend!

Trying to think of some of my Mom's....

Useless as tits on a boar.

That's the only one that leaps to mind.

Those are good, Lauran!

Oh! I just remembered. I thought I would fall off the sofa last night when Len Goodman (one of the judges on Dancing With the Stars) told a contestant that she came within a "gnat's scrotum" of leaving the show, coming from him and on tv it just cracked me up. Pardon if you don't watch that show it will mean nothing but that was so funny. We say gnat's ass and rat's ass but that was a new one for me :).

Hmm.

ost of the ones I can come up with are probably common.

"come Hell or High Water" = will continue the course, no matter what
"all decked out" = well dressed
"dressed to the 9's" = well dressed.
"that ain't no count" = worthless
"lazy man's load" = trying to carry two trips worth of material in one trip
"tore up" = very emotionally distressed
"washateria" = Coin operated laundromat
"till the trump sounds" = until the end of time
"being ugly to me" = treating one poorly
"having a conniption fit" = expressing extreme displeasure
"don't know him from Adam" = a complete stranger
"full as a tick" = eaten too much
"don't have a pot to pee in" = extremely poor
"crank the car/the car won't crank" = to start the car/car won't start
"crack the window" = lower the window a couple of inches
"rarer than hen's teeth" = extremely rare/non-existent
"gets my goat" = makes me angry
"eat up with chiggers" = bitten many times with Trombicula alfreddugesi.

Gunny are you Texan? You sure sound like one of us. I am very at home with all of that lol. Oh and hissy fit, you haven't lived until you've seen a hissy fit :).

Yeah, lots of those are familiar from my Mom.

"Full of spit and vinegar" = Fiesty

And sometimes we heard her say: "Full of piss and vinegar"

Hmmm... not sure if they are "Canadianese" but some of my favorites are,

Flat as piss on a plate.

Goat rodeo - mass confusion.

Cluster f*** - a large bunch of people talking but saying nothing.

Don't piss on my corn flakes - don't annoy me.

I've never heard the first two, it's great to hear these phrases from other places.

We do ask "Who pissed in your corn flakes this morning?" if someone is grumpy and out of sorts.

I'm familiar with cluster f because of EQ. It was a favorite of a friend of ours from California when things would be messy in raids :). Our friends from New Zealand kept saying ffs all the time and I finally asked my daughter what that meant, lol.

Gunny are you Texan? You sure sound like one of us. I am very at home with all of that lol.

Naw, I'm from Tennessee. But Texans are real close to Tennesseans. Heck, we had one of our boys in the Alamo right alongside y'all. :)