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Holger

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Posted: April 10 2003, 05:31

I wonder...

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Posted: April 10 2003, 13:18

Heh, now there's a question!

No, Mike doesn't ride his horses now - he says he doesn't want to end up like Christopher Reeve. Perhaps Fanny rides them.

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Posted: April 10 2003, 13:30

Mmh, I thought as much...

Who's Christopher Reeve, and what happened to him? (Sorry for my ignorance... would it happen to be the Superman guy?)

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Posted: April 10 2003, 14:01

Yup he's the superman guy. He fell off a horse playing polo and is now massively paralised, he can't even breath without the help of a mechanical lung.

We have it on authority from Mike that riding a horse gently is a good hangover cure. I have my doubts. I don't know what you guys's hangovers are like but I'm sure there is no horse alive that would enjoy a mane full of sick, maybe I just drink to much.

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Posted: April 10 2003, 17:08

Quote (Korgscrew @ April 10 2003, 19:18)

Mike doesn't ride his horses now - he says he doesn't want to end up like Christopher Reeve. Perhaps Fanny rides them.

Ride, Fanny, ride...

Sorry about the stupidity of this post.

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Posted: April 10 2003, 17:55

There's innuendo potential in that, but I'm not going to go there

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Posted: April 10 2003, 19:42

I think I might.... ...did you know in America they refer to their backside as their fanny? Many, many years ago I had a summer job in an outdoor clothing shop, an American tourist came up to me holding a pair of ladies trousers and said quite clearly 'have you got these in a size larger? My wife has an enormous fanny'. I thought to myself just how big can it be? Well I had problems keeping a straight face to put it mildly.

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Posted: April 12 2003, 09:44

Haha. Where did you hear that Korgscrew, that Mike didn't want to end up like Reeve? I haven't hear or read it yet. :cool:

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Posted: April 12 2003, 10:11

Probably here: http://tubular.net/articles/02_06d.shtml

In the article Mike was asked if he rode his horses and he replied:
"No, I used to, but I had a terrible throwing-off one day, and I didn't want to end up like Christopher Reeve."

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Posted: Jan. 22 2012, 14:11

Quote (Ugo @ April 10 2003, 17:08)

Ride, Fanny, ride...

and my big brown beastie takes you for a ride

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Posted: Jan. 23 2012, 04:04

Mike could become a bronie and ride "Little Pony's" instead.

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Posted: Jan. 23 2012, 17:47

Actually the full (intentionally wrong) quote was like that:
"All you wanna do is ride around, Fanny...
...Ride, Fanny, ride..."

:laugh:

I may be wrong about this, but I think that English people (meant as Englanders) have an idiomatic expression - "sweet Fanny Adams", which means "absolutely nothing" (e.g. "I know sweet Fanny Adams about that"). I'm not sure where it comes from, I don't even know who Fanny Adams is (or was), so I'm not sure whether it has any links to the current vulgar meaning of the word "fanny". BTW, @ TOBY: I'm sure that you know that Americans and Englishmen place the fanny on literally opposite sides of the body.

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Posted: Jan. 26 2012, 17:55

Quote (Ugo @ Jan. 23 2012, 23:47)

I may be wrong about this, but I think that English people (meant as Englanders) have an idiomatic expression

You mean like Englandish people?

Honestly, I've never heard the word "Englanders" before... does make sense though.

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Posted: Jan. 26 2012, 18:27

@ Holger: I meant British people - people from Britain. I meant to clarify the definition of "English people" by saying that I didn't just refer to people who spoke English as a native language, and instead I was referring specifically to people from Britain. But of course, being Italian, I couldn't think immediately of the right word (which was of course "British") and I came up with an outlandish word which I'm not even sure exists.

I did not edit the post because I honestly couldn't think of what the right word was until I re-read the post 2 days later. Mea culpa.

By the way, in the meantime I've learnt that "sweet Fanny Adams" is, as I thought, almost exclusively British. In America it's shortened to "sweet FA" or just FA, as in fuck-all. :cool:

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Posted: Jan. 26 2012, 20:37

Quote (Ugo @ Jan. 27 2012, 00:27)

I did not edit the post because I honestly couldn't think of what the right word was until I re-read the post 2 days later. Mea culpa.

Your post was perfectly fine. In fact, I've always been a big fan of your posts.

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Posted: Jan. 26 2012, 21:31

This topic is funny

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Posted: Jan. 27 2012, 10:47

Quote (Ugo @ Jan. 23 2012, 17:47)

Actually the full (intentionally wrong) quote was like that:
"All you wanna do is ride around, Fanny...
...Ride, Fanny, ride..."

:laugh:

Here's another one meaning the same thing. " Cat, Ball, Pigeon."

Because when all you've got is a cat, a ball, and a pigeon. You've got nothing.

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Posted: Jan. 28 2012, 11:49

Never having dropped the expression myself, I had the mildest of notions that it was connected to either or both of the American Presidents Adams - until this week that is, when these posts led me to its unfortunate origin and the gallows humour that has led the way to its current usage.

What it immediately brought to mind is one of the other comic euphemisms relating to "sweet FA". I have an LP of the British satire show from the early sixties, That Was The Week That Was. It may not be as originally as broadcast on television - it's one of the George Martin-produced Parlophone recordings, which sometimes meant recreations but one fragment is a famous mini-sketch called What Remains of the Empire. In it David Frost brings wry attention to the territories which Britain still owned, concluding with "... Western Samoa, the Maldive Islands and sweet Rockall!" which is the disputed islet that you may read about here,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockall

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