Mike Masnick ✅Nov 14, 2022
I don't know who this person is who just followed me, but they win for the best name on Mastodon (and, yes, I'm a fan of the book it's referencing).
Show threadGirtBySeaNov 14, 2022
@mmasnick
Has extra resonance in Australia
Where there's old joke about wombats
Which
Eats Roots & Leaves
Roots does not have cheerleading meaning here that it does in US
Here it's far more carnal.
Show threadBill RickerNov 15, 2022
@GirtBySea @mmasnick
(the rural portion of the rest of the anglosphere used "ruts" for the carnal meaning AFAIK, but given the great vowel movements, it makes sense that "ruts" became "roots" in 'strine.)
Show threadGirtBySeaNov 15, 2022

@BRicker @mmasnick
Lol
An oldie but a goodie

Afferbeck Lauder, brilliant: you kinda have to do some sort of stumble between the k & l, which makes it work.

We had until recently an cruelly named conservative politician, one Hunt, Greg.
Fancy with that surname, giving your kid a first name ending in a velar plosive.
His parliamentary nickname was
"Yorick"

Show threadBill RickerNov 15, 2022
@GirtBySea @mmasnick and Jeremy Hunt is back in UK Cabinet, where he was known as Cockney Rhyming slang in previous term.
Show threadGirtBySea
@BRicker
Float Yorick for him too.
Works a treat.
Start sentences
"Alas, poor Jeremy..." the rest will follow.
Nov 15, 2022 at 6:07amWeb