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Hello! Wave

Great welcome! Thank you :D

Well... yep! you got me.. I'm a badly educated funny man wanna be ... and totally reliant on spell check.

Until now my bad spelling only helped me be funny when I spelt it fanny!

What am I working on? I suppose a start,trying to find a use for me being funny.... And also trying to get in to the habit of writing down the things I say and do that are funny in every day life!

I'm not sure what it is that makes things more funny when I say them than when other people do... it just seems to be that way. I've always used humour to put people at ease.

:)

Hi and welcome !

And don't worry, if you don't make it in comedy try denim clothing . you never know !

:)

Wotcha.

Quote: Timbo @ October 22 2009, 12:28 AM BST

Wotcha.

Is that your native tongue ?

Very much so.

"Wotcha" - derived from "What cheer?", the traditional English greeting, prior to the adoption of "Hello", an Americanism first popularised by Charles Dickens in a Christmas Carol. (In British English "Hello", had formerly been an exclamation - much as Leslie Philips continues to use it to this day.)

Oo. Iiiiinteresting. You really are terribly clever, Timbo.

Vitalstatitix, the chief of a small village of indomitable Gauls, was using "wotcher" back in 50 B.C.

Quote: Oldrocker @ October 22 2009, 12:19 AM BST

Don't worry, if you don't make it in comedy try denim clothing . you never know !

A very funny posting, cruelly ignored by the masses (or maybe they've all got proper jobs?) Cool

Quote: Timbo @ October 22 2009, 10:59 AM BST

Very much so.

"Wotcha" - derived from "What cheer?", the traditional English greeting, prior to the adoption of "Hello", an Americanism first popularised by Charles Dickens in a Christmas Carol. (In British English "Hello", had formerly been an exclamation - much as Leslie Philips continues to use it to this day.)

And as featured in Hancock's greeting to the world at the opening of The East Cheam Drama Festival !

:)

Quote: Timbo @ October 22 2009, 10:59 AM BST

"Wotcha" - derived from "What cheer?", the traditional English greeting, prior to the adoption of "Hello", an Americanism first popularised by Charles Dickens in a Christmas Carol. (In British English "Hello", had formerly been an exclamation - much as Leslie Philips continues to use it to this day.)

That, with respect is a suburban myth. The correct version:

"Wotcha" - derived from "What are you looking at?" aka "Wotcha lookin' at?", the traditional English thinly-veiled threat , prior to the adoption of "Yo, bro!", a psuedo-African-Americanism first popularised by East London DJ Innit Lak in his "Yo, Bro, She Ma Ho, Innit!" (In British English "Yo, bro!", had formerly been an exclamation - much as The Legendary Lenny Henry continues to use it to this day.)

Quote: Aaron @ October 22 2009, 11:37 AM BST

Oo. Iiiiinteresting. You really are terribly clever, Timbo.

I can barely tie my own shoelaces, but I do know a lot of useless shit!

Quote: Morrace @ October 22 2009, 4:06 PM BST

That, with respect is a suburban myth. The correct version:

"Wotcha" - derived from "What are you looking at?" aka "Wotcha lookin' at?", the traditional English thinly-veiled threat , prior to the adoption of "Yo, bro!", a psuedo-African-Americanism first popularised by East London DJ Innit Lak in his "Yo, Bro, She Ma Ho, Innit!" (In British English "Yo, bro!", had formerly been an exclamation - much as The Legendary Lenny Henry continues to use it to this day.)

I love History.:)

Nice welcome Chaps... ...But Lenny Henry?...legendary????

I didn't know he'd been promoted? Oh yeah! I remember...he's Dawn Frenchs Husband. B-)

Oh yeah..I got three PMSLings last night and one LMAO... Oh the dizzy heights.. B-)

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