Fa – the Green Dragon

A Place for the Odd Musings of an Expat Bristolian


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Journalism student tries a headline

Doctors wanted to try a Bottle of Bleach on Trump’s Brain but were Unable to find One.


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Just joking 2.

A horse walks into a bar and orders a drink

The bar-tender asks, How Come the long face?


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Just joking1.

I went into bar the other day and asked the bar-tender for a double. He went in the back room behind the bar and came back with a guy who looked just like me.


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Obscure words explained 86. – jabberwocky

JABBERWOCKY

Some writing or speech

containing meaningless words

Trump is it’s master


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A bit of Americal – Unusual place names in Ohio1. – Knockemstiff

Change of gears. Who remembers Alistair Cook’s “Letter from America” well here’ s Bristolians version in A bit of Americal. I have started with a previous theme of unusual place names. We have plenty of these in the USA.

KNOCKEMSTIFF,  Ross county, Ohio

Slang term for Moonshine

illegal liquor from maize

distilled in secret


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Obscure words explained77. – persiflage

PERSIFLAGE

frivolous speaking

makes you sound like Oscar Wilde

Some light-hearted talk

 


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Geezers and Sheezers

GEEZERS and SHEEZERS

In Britain, old men

are called Geezers, wives Sheezers

Isn’t that funny?

 

 


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Unusual U.K. Place names 58. – Awre

AWRE, Gloucestershire

Name from Old English

meaning sour water meadow

Cows had long faces