I will note meanings just incase some of of you weren't 'down with the lingo' for one reason or another.
"I know you are, you said you are, but what am I?" The perfect come back to any insult/ name calling.
"Boys germs!!" Forget terrorism or natural disasters, these pose more of a threat to any 5 year old school girl.
"YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!" When an ordinary 'yes' just isn't enough
"Guess what? You flushed bugs bunny down the dunny and it wasn't very funny!" This insult was designed more to show off rhyming skills than it was to hurt feelings.
"Whoever smelt it, dealt it" Said to the first person to declare the presence of a fart. A poor attempt to place blame.
"Whoever denied it supplied it!" A classic and acceptable come back for the accused to fire back at finger pointers.
"Who ever started it, sharted it!!" Often the last ditch attempt at saving face. Yes, it has gone too far by now but lets face it, that kid is always the one taking jokes too far.
"Nigel no friends" This speaks for itself. You don't want to be one of these.
"Astalavista baby! I'll be back!" Thanks to the terminator himself, school kids had a new found farewell to wow their friends with.
"Mongulated" In reference to one being uncoordinated.
"Shotgun!" A fair claim for first dibbs on most objects such as chairs/ play equipment.
"Povo" Describing an object/ person as being below standard.
"Crap" The first official swear word said in many homes across Australia in the mid-nineties.
"Here's 40 cents, go call someone who cares" Ouch, that hurts.
"Your mother is so fat...." Ah yes, we'd all rather forget those jokes.
"Mad!" When something is utterly fantastic beyond logical description.
"Sick!" See mad.
"Fully sick!" Now, this one must ONLY be used whilst employing a fake Lebanese accent. Lets just say that many have tried, but not many have succeeded in pulling this one off.
"Like..." The modern day 'um'. Mostly like, used by those like, with poor sentence contructing skills, like.
"Stacked it" Fell over/ onto something.
"Punch a buggy" When a VW beetle passes by, you apparently have the right to punch the nearest person- oh- just as long as you say Punch a buggy.
"Jinx!" "Personal Jinx!" Jinx no return" etc etc OK so if you say something at the same time as another person they can declare jinx on you. Making sense? Didn't think so.
"A pinch and a punch for the first day of the month" Yes, you guessed it, you get punished for it being the 1st of the month.
"A hit and a kick for being so quick" Ah, thank goodness you have a comeback to defend yourself with against those 'first day of the month' bullies.
Ah yes, I could go on.
Good times. Goooooood times.
"Whoever started it sharted it"? I have not heard that before. But it's good to have a new comeback for those situations.
ReplyDeleteI have found that different towns/ cities have their own versions of things. Tim reckons that it's meant to be "Whoever said the rhyme did the crime" I like that but it must be a Toongabbie thing?
ReplyDeleteUpon delving into my now repressed childhood memories, I remembered a few others, mostly related to schoolyard sports:
ReplyDelete"I'm on bar" or simply "B-A-R"; When playing a game of tip, this meant that you couldn't, be tipped.
"You can't get the butcher back"; Another tip related phrase, meaning you can't tip the person, that tipped you.
"Interference" or "Inno's"; WIn handball (schoolyard, not European), if someone set even one little toe in your square, you were obligated to make a massive deal out of it and yell one of these terms.
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"Service"; In handball, yelling this was requesting that the person serving (usually called Ace) would serve you the ball.
Ah, they were simpler times.