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[Vraille Darkfang]

It was not till years later that I realised that American "jelly" = "jam". I think what we call "jelly" they call "jell-o", but I'm not sure.

Americans use jelly & jam interchangebly. But they are actually different things.

Jelly is a fruit spread made from fruit juice, so it's very smooth & lacks fruit bits & seeds.

Jam is made by boiling the whole fruit, so it has lots of fruitty bits & seeds (for small seeds like rasberry & strawberry).

Jell-o is a brand name that refers to a flavored geletin product. Geletin is obtained from rendered animal bits (usually pigs in the US). The geletin is what gives the Jell-o its wobelly form. In fact, until the invention of powdered Geletin, Geletin deserts were very hard to make & often seen as a mark of sophistication & wealth to produce.

Any company can produce a geletin product that looks, acts & tastes like Jell-O. Only the Jell-O corporation can make a geletin desert & CALL it Jell-O. (Like Coke vs Pepsi vs Soft Drink).

For instance, there used to be a grundge band called Green Jell-O (put out hit 3 Little Pigs). Jell-O sued them & they had to change their name to Green Jelly).

So Jam & Jelly are both fruit products, but made differently. Geletin & Jell-O are complelty different.

 

[glass]

After going through my Planewalkers Handbook (2nd Ed Planescape product) I finally realized that planar slang is an offshoot or British slang. I made the discovery this past weekend while at a friends place.

IIRC, it's derived from 19th century British slang.


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[glass]

I remember a friend telling me someone was asking him to pop the trunk, but I can't remember the Brittish term for it. I want to say Kit, but I'm not sure. Anyway, he thought the guy was hitting on him.

Not really slang but it's the boot (and on this side of the pond, you open it rather than popping it).

I had always thought Snogging was mostly just another term for french kiss (Tonsil scraping, tongue tag, Tonsil Hockey, tongue wrestling, etc), but apparently it's a bit more than that.

No, that's pretty much it.

The US and the UK, 2 countries seperated by a common language.

 

[glass]

In America, that's "getting to second base."

Don't ask me why we used baseball analogy, though I'm sure my fellow Americans have naughty thoughts when it comes to bats and balls.

So, is British "shagging" an American "third base" or "home run"?

If I am understanding your sland correctly, both shagging and copping off are home runs.

While we're on the subject, what is meant by the various 'bases' (if you can think of a granny safe way to explain it)?


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[glass]

(For the benefit of non-Brits, wanker = someone who masturbates).

Or more specifically, male who masterbates. Although in common with most of these things it is rarely meant litterally -it is more often used to mean unpleastant or irritating person (ie as a general purpose insult).

Tosser is similar.


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[Jonny Nexus]

Or more specifically, male who masterbates.

You mean women do it too!

 

[Jonny Nexus]

Sodomy is a word used in america. Buggery isn't. Bugger is a word that has lost nearly all it's meaning over here, in the areas I hear it used. Very different than it's used across the pond.

For those who don't know, sodomy and buggery are synonyms. Well, sodomy around here can mean any non-missionalry sex, so, to be more specific, buggery is anal sex.

Sodomy has a different meaning over here (I've been confused in the past when reading US news articles in which oral sex is described as "sodemy").

In the UK I believe they are both very specific legal definitions (someone please correct me if I'm wrong):

* Sodomy is anal sex between a man and a woman.

* Buggery is anal sex between two men.

 

[wingsandsword]

gas = ??? (the stuff that powers your cooker or central heating boiler)

We call it gas too, although it's sometimes called "Natural Gas" to differentiate it from the stuff you power your cars with.

 

[DM-Rocco]

I remember a friend telling me someone was asking him to pop the trunk, but I can't remember the Brittish term for it. I want to say Kit, but I'm not sure. Anyway, he thought the guy was hitting on him.

I know Lift = Elevator

I had always thought Snogging was mostly just another term for french kiss (Tonsil scraping, tongue tag, Tonsil Hockey, tongue wrestling, etc), but apparently it's a bit more than that.

The US and the UK, 2 countries seperated by a common language.

Careful, you'll offend MonsterMash vbmenu_register("postmenu_2448157", true);

 

[DM-Rocco]

Basically, "F--- off". Some people think it comes from the word "sod" which means "dirt", but it's rather an abbreviation for an activity named after a city that God nukes in Genesis, and it's not Gomorrah.

Hmm, a little homo errotic activity. Well, that certainly gives new meaning to the word, one I didn't see coming. No pun intended