I've just had occasion to read this again, as you'd kindly linked to it in the online classroom of the course you're currently teaching at CityLit - I laughed the whole way through! I don't know how you managed to avoid non-cliché at all - it's absolutely brilliant! 🤣
Rebecca sent me over here this morning. I missed this one. It really takes the cake! I find sometimes, I can use a cliché in my writing IF I change one word in it to freshen it up ( eg thinking outside the ropes, taking it to a whole 'nother floor, a finger in every custard).
I still use that expression sometimes. And speaking of "piss": When we say "He was really pissed", we mean he was really angry. I was surprised to learn that the same statement in the UK, means that he was drunk. As far as the British expression "taking the piss" goes, I still can't interpret that...?
For angry they like 'fuming'. And as for pissed, I remember hearing an explanation about that which sort of makes sense if you imagine very drunk people pissing a lot and perhaps even on themselves. (Pissed) The British say piss off, where we'd say fuck off. Taking the piss is a weird one, something like pulling someone's leg. I just saw some stories about that in Reddit, but I don't know if they can be credited.
Making fun of!? Great! So is the person who is the butt of the joke taking the piss or is it the person laughing at him who is taking the piss? ( These are important issues!)
I’ve lived in Europe for some time, but I still remember one of my first lessons in ex-pat life (brought on by a conversation with two girls from the Midlands): my mother tongue can also be a foreign language. I had to say “Come again?” every five minutes. LOL
I love this so much that I've got no words! You drop one thing after another and it keeps getting better and better until the piano line at the end. Brilliant. I think we need more of these please!
Sheesh, well, everything happens for a reason! 🤣 Including ALL of the clichés is a Sisyphean task - so instead of doing that, I suggest you sit down and put your feet up before you blow a gasket. 😉😁🤣
I've just had occasion to read this again, as you'd kindly linked to it in the online classroom of the course you're currently teaching at CityLit - I laughed the whole way through! I don't know how you managed to avoid non-cliché at all - it's absolutely brilliant! 🤣
Thanks, Rebecca. It was as easy as falling off a log, a piece of cake even, because I specialise in cliché-speak.
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Rebecca sent me over here this morning. I missed this one. It really takes the cake! I find sometimes, I can use a cliché in my writing IF I change one word in it to freshen it up ( eg thinking outside the ropes, taking it to a whole 'nother floor, a finger in every custard).
Haha. Well that's a reasonable approach. It just goes to show, there is more than one way to skin a cat.
oooof!
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Sometimes you remember a bit of slang from childhood.
In my part of Queens, when something was uproariously funny you would say it was a 'pisser'. What a pisser! (which this is)
I can't believe I remember this. haha.
I still use that expression sometimes. And speaking of "piss": When we say "He was really pissed", we mean he was really angry. I was surprised to learn that the same statement in the UK, means that he was drunk. As far as the British expression "taking the piss" goes, I still can't interpret that...?
For angry they like 'fuming'. And as for pissed, I remember hearing an explanation about that which sort of makes sense if you imagine very drunk people pissing a lot and perhaps even on themselves. (Pissed) The British say piss off, where we'd say fuck off. Taking the piss is a weird one, something like pulling someone's leg. I just saw some stories about that in Reddit, but I don't know if they can be credited.
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= taking the Mickey, making fun of
Making fun of!? Great! So is the person who is the butt of the joke taking the piss or is it the person laughing at him who is taking the piss? ( These are important issues!)
Oh, I've heard that. I thought it meant "horrible". In the UK, it's a not very nice name for a not very nice person. So much for a common language!
I’ve lived in Europe for some time, but I still remember one of my first lessons in ex-pat life (brought on by a conversation with two girls from the Midlands): my mother tongue can also be a foreign language. I had to say “Come again?” every five minutes. LOL
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I love this so much that I've got no words! You drop one thing after another and it keeps getting better and better until the piano line at the end. Brilliant. I think we need more of these please!
Thanks very much, Donna! I stupidly forgot to include an index of all the versions so far: https://open.substack.com/pub/terryfreedman/p/experiments-in-style?r=18suih&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Hope you enjoy those as well 😃
I look forward to checking out the other versions.
Stone the crows, Dr Tel, I flipping loved this! Laughing like a drain! 🤣
😂 I forgot that one and that one!
Sheesh, well, everything happens for a reason! 🤣 Including ALL of the clichés is a Sisyphean task - so instead of doing that, I suggest you sit down and put your feet up before you blow a gasket. 😉😁🤣
PS did you like the joke at the end? The old ones are the best I always say!
Yes, it was very Terry, Terry! 🤣🎵🎹
😂🎹🎸🎷🎶🎧🎵📢📯 I've declared an emoji war 🤓
Oh my giddy aunt, Terry, no way Jose can I keep up with this game of soldiers... 🙄
OMG Chortle!