[Boerseun]

"Aardvark", of course, being an Afrikaans word! It literally means Earth pig.

The "Trek" bit in Star Trek is also Afrikaans!

You better watch out! We're slooooooowly taking over the world!

[/gratuitous patriotic moment]

[Monomer]

Boerseun said:

You better watch out! We're slooooooowly taking over the world!

Hmmm... better get these aussie ones into circulation, and quickly!

shonky
Bloody oath!
strewth
troppo

[Chacmool]

Monkeygland sauce

Don't be alarmed if you see this item on a menu in South Africa. It has nothing to do with monkeys or with glands! It is a delicious spicy sauce for meat made from fruit, onions, tomatoes, peppers, Worcestershire sauce, vinegar and red wine.

[Michaelangelica]

Purple people Eater-the whole song is full of Funny sounding words and phrases
A song almost as great as "Running Bear"

And you guys are having me on, no responsible "Head" family parents would name their son Richard. How could you work for a boss like that and keep a straight face?
Although I did meet a "Misty Waters" once.

O Yes and one guy changed his name officially to "The Twenty-Seventh Champion Bastard" Why ???? TRUE though, ask the NSW Registrar General's Department they had a whole book of strange names people had changed to .
It used to be bought out every Christmas party
I just wonder what happened when he got pulled up by a cop.

[Monomer]

Michaelangelica said:

And you guys are having me on, no responsible "Head" family parents would name their son Richard.

Dr Richard Head: Preventative Health Flagship Director (Resume)

Michaelangelica said:

How could you work for a boss like that and keep a straight face?

We couldn't!!!

[TheBigDog]

NASCAR fans will remember the driver named...

Dick Trickle (no joke)

And the Hall of Fame football player...

Dick Butkus (he had no choice but fighting)

At work we create user names using our first initial, middle initial and first six letters of the last name. My favorite is...

BJQUICK (I laugh every time. We use his name as our test user at HQ.)

I went to school with a girl named...

Cynthia Crotchfelt (A worse name than head any day of the week)

Bill

[Boerseun]

Haha - Crotchfelt!!!

In SA, there's a big illiterate component of society. Whilst being sad, really, some funny moments do happen when they try to come to grips with modern society, modern technology and the need to register your newborns at the Home Office. With such sterling original names as:

Ringtone Mashabane
Call Waiting Molefe
Matric Exemption Tshabalala
Delicious Ndlovu
Cellphone Masakela

...and many others.

I kid you not. If you don't believe me, ask Chacmool. It's a laugh-a-minute, really.

[Chacmool]

Boerseun said:

Haha - Crotchfelt!!!

In SA, there's a big illiterate component of society. Whilst being sad, really, some funny moments do happen when they try to come to grips with modern society, modern technology and the need to register your newborns at the Home Office. With such sterling original names as:

Ringtone Mashabane
Call Waiting Molefe
Matric Exemption Tshabalala
Delicious Ndlovu
Cellphone Masakela

...and many others.

I kid you not. If you don't believe me, ask Chacmool. It's a laugh-a-minute, really.

It's true. Boerseun's real name is actually Speed Dial Serote.

[LaurieAG]

Boerseun said:

Not only do I pity every fellow called "Richard", but I positively crack myself up whenever they're referred to as "Dick". I actually met a guy (one of the middle managers) at my previous company called Richard Johnson. I kid you not!

Good one Boerseun,

I once knew a Richard Head, a Joe King married to a Lee King whose son was called Wayne King.

[Michaelangelica]

My wife once taught with a Miss Kathy Winterbottom. You can imagine what the kids made of that.
The whole teaching staff were very relieved therefore when she announced her up-coming marriage.
Until they discovered she was marring a Mr. Rump.

[Titas Aduksus]

Nuke-u-lar - Thanks Mr Bush (oh and his name, does he know it's slang for a certain patch of hair...)

[DFINITLYDISTRUBD]

Boerseun said:

And then, of course, Americans can't seem to pronounce Aluminium...

S'all right...y'all can't spell aluminum

Though we do enjoy very much laughing at how the rest of the english speaking world pronounces it:hihi:

[Michaelangelica]

Titas Aduksus said:

Nuke-u-lar - Thanks Mr Bush (oh and his name, does he know it's slang for a certain patch of hair...)

That is the way i prononce it.
Much to the disgust of the women in my life
I put it down to my Irish ancestry.

One malapropism that I can never get out of my head is the toast
"Let's raise our arses to the Queer old Dean"
It is a curse having a visual mind.

PS
OOPPS
The WWW says it's:-
"Let us glase our asses and toast the queer dean."
I prefer my misquote.

[Boerseun]

If you're ever in South Africa or Namibia and you want to thank somebody, tell him to buy a donkey.

I kid you not.

In Afrikaans, the term "thank you" is "baie dankie", which is pronounced, of course, "buy a donkey" - much to the confusion of tourists who can't seem to fathom why the locals keep on telling them to invest in the livestock market.

[Qfwfq]

Good one, it reminds me I heard that English languge tourists down there are often confused by the bilingual roadsigns, they read them as "slags only" and wonder if they're allowed to go that way when in fact it's the only option!!!

It happened to the parents of an old friend of mine, serious! They were told it happens to plenty of tourists.

DFINITLYDISTRUBD said:

S'all right...y'all can't spell aluminum

Though we do enjoy very much laughing at how the rest of the english speaking world pronounces it:hihi:

It's history. The dominance of the spelling used in North America has been attributed to Charles Martin Hall's mistake when advertising his new electrolytic method of production, despite he himself had usually spelt it the accepted way. There had already been a bit of discussion between the two spellings, to the aim of conformance with other chemical nomenclature but, at any rate, the 'i' remained elsewhere and not only in English, it's in Italian and I checked with French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Russian and Arabic dictionaries here in the library. The IUPAC adopted aluminium as the standard international name but also recognizes aluminum as an acceptable variant.