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

[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.