Question for Englishman / Englishwoman

What does this slang term mean

[SlimKim]

I'm in the USA and I find those English folks from the ole country have funny sayings.

If you pave the parking lot they say tarmac instead of pavement, and that's not so bad - most everyone can figure that one.

I guess the one that sticks in my crawl the most is the use of "one-off" to mean a one time event. Boy-oh-boy, how are you suppose to know what that means.

But what I'm asking is this:

What do english folk mean when they say, "you don't know you're born."

Is that the equivalent of you don't know squat or what exactly does it mean?

Thanks,

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

"In 1962, it was discovered that the London Bridge was "falling down," sinking into the Thames because it was not adequate for the increase in traffic. The City of London decided to put the 130-year old bridge up for auction, and construct a new one in its place.

Robert P. McCulloch, founder of Lake Havasu City, AZ, submitted the winning bid for $2,460,000 in 1968. McCulloch spent another $7million to move the London Bridge to Lake Havasu City which took a total of three years."

... and he has probably did OK out of it because it has been a major tourist attraction there for over thirty years. I doubt if any Brits would have visited it had it been reconstructed anywhere over here.

[lawman]

Haha, I think you missed my point. I guess my warped sense of humor doesn't match your warped sense of humour. :)

[RailMan]

Enjoy your bridge and let us know if you want any more old stuff. We've got stacks of it over here :)

ROFL!

i'm sure there are a few castles we could sell them ........ cardiff ....... corfe ...... hastings ........

[lawman]

I'm absolutely positive that someone would be willing to trade some swampland in Florida, some mountain property in either of the Carolinas, and even a bridge in Brooklyn for those cool castles.

Would you throw in Stonehenge to sweeten the pot?

[RailMan]

pah, stonehenge is just a pile of old rocks

did you know we've got dozens of stone circles in the UK? stonehenge is just one such circle .......

as it happens, americans have already bought nelsons column, big ben and buckingham palace ........
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[Syzygy]

...London Bridge was "falling down,"... The City of London decided to put the 130-year old bridge up for auction...

Therein lies the comedy - and the bare-faced cheek. You've got a major architectural structure crumbling in your city. What do you do? Auction it...

We laugh at the extreme nonsense being auctioned on the web today, but to sell off a crumbling bridge - destined only to become rubble - well, that is unsurpassed.

Syzygy

[lawman]

>>a pile of rocks . . . a crumbling bridge

So, how much would you take for the Queen and three Buckingham Palace guards? :)

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

Buy the three guards for £25K each and we'll throw in old Liz (and Phil) for nothing.

But then the value of royalty in the UK can also be a bit regional ... on second thoughts, let's not go there ;)

[Old_Honky]

Buy the three guards for £25K each and we'll throw in old Liz (and Phil) for nothing.

I think you are being a trifle optimistic there. You can't expect them to pay that much. I think we should have a whip round and pay the Americans to take them off our hands. I'm in for £50. They would have to take the whole lot of them though. (Including the corgis).

The main benifit for our colonial cousins will be that the vast majority of Americans who don't have a passport would now be able to come and watch the antics of these over privilleged nincompoops at a specially constructed series of Royal theme Parks. Perhaps Disney would be prepared to run them under contract?

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[edited by: lawman at 1:13 pm (utc) on Nov. 1, 2005]
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