Anticlimax

[sovay]

No translations today. Decipher another papyrus, though, and we're in business. Till then, a silly quiz. kraada, I hope you appreciate this.

Your LiveJournal Pirate Crew LiveJournal Username Fifteen men on a dead man's chest! Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!Ew... How unsanitary.*dances a jig on a dead man's chest* Cutlass or pistol? CutlassPistolTorpedoHeat vision What is the name of your pirate ship? Where is your secret pirate base? Jolly Pirate IslandTreasure IslandPleasure IslandIsland of DoomGilligan's IslandWindfall Island What kind of loot do you prefer? Pieces of eight!Bling!Babes!Booze!Crowns and scepters!Target giftcards! What do you and your crew prefer to be called? Freebooters!Swashbucklers!Corsairs!Seadogs!Desperados!Pirates, of course! Parrot or monkey? ParrotMonkeyUnicornKittenT-Rex Argh! Ahoy, matey!Avast!Shiver me timbers!I'll see you to Davy Jones!Argh! Ack! Gah! *thud* Your capable first mate kraada Your bumbling cabin boy with a heart of gold muchabstracted The aloof, yet honorable, pirate with a mysterious past yuki_onna Is always the first one into the fray strange_selkie Is the naval officer who ruthlessly pursues your ship truepenny Is the comical pirate who is always drunk on grog spectre_general Is currently in Davy Jones's locker obafugakum The amount of money you make as a pirate $13,025 This Fun Quiz created by Lynn at BlogQuiz.Net

(Cut for a second silly quiz and total, total incomprehension.)

Your Slanguage Profile

Aussie Slang: 100%

New England Slang: 75%

Prison Slang: 75%

Victorian Slang: 75%

British Slang: 50%

Canadian Slang: 25%

Southern Slang: 25%

What Slanguage Do You Speak?

How on God's green earth did I score one hundred percent Australian slang? I have never been to Australia in my life! I haven't even seen Crocodile Dundee, which I fear may be the primary American exposure to Australian culture . . . I did see Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, but that was in high school. I am bewildered. And I don't even know how to say that in Australian slang.

Comments

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

I got 100% Aussie slang, too. I've seen a bit of Crocodile Hunter, but I don't think there was anything I knew from there on here. I think it was just easier to infer what the terms must mean, somehow. They're a very vivid sort of colorful.

[sovay]

Yes, but beyond the obvious ones like "barbie" for "barbecue," I couldn't have told you which were the Australian terms. For that matter, other than "dollymop," I don't even know which were Victorian. I seemed to have scored highly on a slang quiz in which I could identify almost none of the regions. Doesn't that somewhat defeat the point?

[kraada.livejournal.com]

Not if the point is hilarity. Because imagining you all dressed up ready to go hunt some sort of critter in the outback with your boomerang is funny. Heck, the idea of you trying to get a boomerang to work . . . it's funny! :) (Not that I'd do any better . . . and I've tried . . .)

[sovay]

My only experiments with the boomerang were in elementary school, and I don't think I ever got the damned thing to come back to me! If I were set loose in the Australian outback and pointed in the direction of a tasty-looking kangaroo, I would starve and die. And probably swear about it in American. : P

[kraada.livejournal.com]

I played with a nice wooden one in middle and high school . . .

On the plus side I could make it start to come back to me.

On the minus side I had to throw it really hard in order to do so. This meant when I did throw it and it didn't come back, I'd have to walk really far to go pick it up . . . but I did nearly take off my brother's head with it once . . .

[sovay]

. . . But if you decapitate somebody with it, it won't come back.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

As in nature, thing exists to propagate itself - you see quiz, you do quiz, you post in your blog, I see quiz... etc. You can find the quiz witty, entertaining, enlightening - or you can find it so baffling that you have to ask everyone what it means. Doesn't matter to the quiz.

This one gets its results by not noticing that there might be a difference between slang you use and slang you understand (or indeed, can guess, given a multiple choice). You'd get a more accurate picture if every question had a "none of the above" option - and if it was sometimes true.

I scored high on British slang (whatever that might be) and would have scored higher on it if the common British uses of packie (or paki) and Jerry had been offered: thankfully, they weren't.

[sovay]

This one gets its results by not noticing that there might be a difference between slang you use and slang you understand

Yeah. I mean, I've never called anyone a dollymop in my life. Maybe I should start . . .

thankfully, they weren't.

Is that sense of "Jerry" still common usage? I tend to associate it almost entirely with World War II films. (Or there's another common use I don't know about, and my foot is squarely in my mouth.)

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Is that sense of "Jerry" still common usage? I tend to associate it almost entirely with World War II films.

No, that's what I meant. You're probably right - though I'm always surprised at the level of anti-German humour, both how much and how unpleasant, that is seen as acceptable on, for example, mainstream radio comedy shows.

[sovay]

May I ask where you are? Possibly it's just that I'm wholly out of touch with the world—for example, I don't have a television—but I'm not sure I've ever listened to a mainstream radio comedy show, unless "Says You" counts.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I should have made it clear that I'm in the UK: I was thinking in particular of I'm Sorry, I haven't a Clue - which is often very funny, but has a nasty line in anti-German jokes.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

*leaps into the fray*

I got 75% New England Slang but also, interestingly enough, 75% Aussie Slang. Eh.

[sovay]

I seriously wonder what New England Slang is.