I have an old friend called Chris Pett. We have lost touch, I suspect that he
has done a Lord Lucan and gone into hiding. Just in case there is another Chris Pett, my friend answers to Eri Stalis. Before he disappeared from my radar, Chris used to be a frequent flier.
I heard from an airport insider in Jersey that Chris single-handedly caused
the airport authorities to change their policy for passenger announcements.
The reason was that Chris was for ever going to the information desk and
asking them to tannoy messages for people with the names like this: Lei Ying Lo (Lying Low). Then one day the penny dropped, the messages, like the people, were pure fiction.
Engrish / Chinese Humour
Will and Guy have been researching to check that China is ready for the
Olympic Games in Beijing and have come across these photographs which may amuse
you.
Will and Guy have created this guide for those of you who will venture into
the English county known as Essex, where they have a language all of their own.
This Essex is in the UK, not far from London, and the accent is not unlike
cockney, but without the rhyming slang.
We recommend that you speak each phrase or word out loud before reading the
translation which we have supplied:
alma chizzit - A request to find the cost of an item:
how much is it?
amant - Quantity; sum total ('Thez a yuge amant of mud in
Saffend'): amount
assband - Unable to leave the house because of illness or
disability: housebound
awss - A four legged animal, on which money is won, or more
likely lost ('That awss ya tipped cost me a fiver t'day'): horse
branna - More brown than on a previous occasion ('Ere,
Trace, ya look branna today, ‘ave you been on sunbed?'): browner
cort a panda - A rather large hamburger: quarter
pounder
Dan in the maff - Unhappy ('Wossmatta, Trace, ya look a bit
Dan in the maff'): down in the mouth
eye-eels - Women's shoes: heels
Furrock - The location of Lakeside Shopping Centre:
Thurrock
garrij - A building where a car is kept or repaired(Trace: 'Oi,
Darren, I fink the motah needs at go in the garrij cos it aint working proper'):
garage
Ibeefa - Balaeric holiday island: Ibiza
lafarjik - Lacking in energy ('I feel all lafarjik'):
lethargic
OI OI! - Traditional greeting. Often heard from the doorway
of pubs or during banging dance tunes at clubs: hello
paipa - The Sun, The Mirror or The Sport: newspaper
reband - The period of recovery and emotional turmoil after
rejection by a lover ('I couldn't elp it, I wuz on the reband from Craig'):
rebound
Saffend - Essex coastal resort boasting the longest pleasure
pier in the world. The place where the characters from TV's, popular soap opera,
Eastenders go on holiday: Southend
tan - The city of London, the big smoke: town
webbats - Querying the location something or someone is. ('Webbats
is me dole card Trace? I've gotta sign on in arf hour'): whereabouts
wonnid - Desired, needed or Wanted by the police:
wanted
zaggerate - To suggest that something is bigger or better
than it actually is. ('I told ya a fazzand times already'): exaggerate
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