Verbal Faux Pas, Jargon, Cliches, Boganisms, etc

[Sedat!]

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Just about every commentator: "In regards to"

The correct term is "with regard to''. Frustrates the hell out of me....

 

[Registered User]

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Thompson:
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"Matthew Scarlett wasn't a lay-down misery, mind you. He wasn't a great junior player and we took a risk," he said.
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ha! That reminds me...

Mark Allen on SEN:

"he's a lay-down blizair"

 

[Registered User]

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I think it was the Hewitt guy on 3aw who reffered to an end on the Launceston ground as: "they'll be kicking to the Australia end of the ground"

 

[Mr Chuckles]

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Along the lines of "Pandora's floodgates", my favourite mixed metaphor comes from English football:

"We threw our dice into the ring and turned up trumps."
BRUCE RIOCH, ITV

 

[Father Jack]

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I think it was the Hewitt guy on 3aw who reffered to an end on the Launceston ground as: "they'll be kicking to the Australia end of the ground"

That is one way to make yourself very unpopular down there. Another is to pronounce the name of the city as 'Lornceston'. That personally annoys the sheizer out of me. Even the knobhead PM does it.

 

[Registered User]

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Another is to pronounce the name of the city as 'Lornceston'. That personally annoys the sheizer out of me. Even the knobhead PM does it.

ha! Does he? So do i



Incidentally, have you noticed how few people realise that George (Hugh Laurie) is also Dr. House? Even Blackadder fans don't realise it. Does he look that different now?

 

[Registered User]

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Mark Allen was reading some email about cricket, which contained: "he is the fiercest bowler...", and Allen said, "he is the fire-crest bowler.."

in his defense, he did vehemently protest that what he was reading was spelled incorrectly

 

[Registered User]

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I may have put this one on before, but here's a nice little tautology from Malcolm Stewart on 3aw:

"petrol prices are astronomically out of this world"

 

[Father Jack]

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ha! Does he? So do i



Incidentally, have you noticed how few people realise that George (Hugh Laurie) is also Dr. House? Even Blackadder fans don't realise it. Does he look that different now?

Hugh Laurie as Prince George is possibly the funniest character ever.

"I want people to say 'That George, why he's as clever as a stick in a bucket of pigswill'".

"I'm as happy as a Frenchman who has just invented a pair of self-removing trousers"

 

[Registered User]

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he was also grouse as that German dude, or was it French?

"that's right!! For I was that sheep"

"oh, my appa-logies, Blackadder"



I haven't watched for years -- I should go get it

 

[GoOsH1]

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I got a laugh from this one on the fremantle board

Dr Ralph Dogg
"the flaw in your ointment is..."

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showpost.php?p=7199626&postcount=19

 

[Registered User]

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KB this morning on SEN:

"can players now say they were provocated?"

 

[Registered User]

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3aw caller last night:

"the tribunal result is a fate complete"

 

[spell_check]

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Another Dougie favourite - 'arx' or 'arxing'

 

[lihei]

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All that seems to say is that you think it's a huge laugh that your English is better than some ignorant footballers!

It is.

Does the English remind you too much of home

 

[Registered User]

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Libba on 3aw on Friday night:

"over my career I done some indiscretionable things"

 

[Registered User]

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a girlfriend of a friend of mine pronounces "trilogy" as "tree-ology"

 

[Joe Mama]

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I'll start off with a few from the world of Baseball from former Yankees & Mets Manager, Casey Stengel.

"All right, everybody line up alphabetically according to your height".

"Being with a woman never hurt no professional baseball player, It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in".

On players who didn't drink: "It only helps them if they can play".

And a few from former Yankees catcher, Yogi Bera.

"Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical".

"You can observe a lot by watching".

"It's deja vu, all over again".

"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore".

"Why buy good luggage ?, you only use it when you travel".

"I really didn't say everything I said".

"If people aren't going to the ball park, nobody's going to stop them".

On being told by the wife of New York Mayor John V. Lindsay that he looked cool despite the heat "You don't look so hot either".

Brilliant.

 

[gadj1976]

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My mum continually says "Eye-tal-yen" rather than "It-al-ian". Very frustrating.

 

[Norm24]

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Don Scott:

"Play on. It was 50 of one and half a dozen of the other."

"Well Sandy, I'm Just shaking my head in agreement."

 

[AlecDuncan]

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Here's a few classics..

Pretty hard to beat Jack Dyer: "Silvagni with his testicles".

 

[Red Crow]

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"All right, everybody line up alphabetically according to your height".

You know this is actually possible. For example, say its tallest to shortest.

190cm: Allen, Bond, Smith, Sullivan.
189cm: Christian, Miles, Murray.

etc.

 

[Registered User]

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Mark Allen on SEN:

"all this talk is just scuttlebuck"


Wayne Carey:

"it's not negotionable"

 

[King Corey]

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A common one "the boys were on tenderhooks"

Jason Snell "When I decided to retire, I sat down with my manager and did a career transgression plan"

..Good to see they left nothing to chance.

 

[Super Goalie]

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"You can be rest assured of that..."