Just for 'fun'

[Canuck]

My wife saw it this morning and all she said was.....'Hmmm...clip's too high, will you clean the oven today please?'  

That's high compliments indeed, whenever I make a new puzzle and show it to SWMBO, she will just say; 'I thought you made that puzzle before'

[Arc Light]

 

[DCBluesman]

I've made the big time!  I have a nick name, courtesy of Out Toppie.  Oupa!  I like that.   

[Canuck]

I've made the big time!  I have a nick name, courtesy of Out Toppie.  Oupa!  I like that.   

Hmmmmm....I like your version of Johan's 'nickname' as well

[Johan Heyns]

Oupa

Just so that there is no misunderstanding, it is a serious title of respect!!!

Not like Soutie at all!!!!!

[Skiprat]

Don't listen to him Lou

Oupa = Bad
Sout Peel = Good
 

[DCBluesman]

Why is there a little voice in my head saying "don't trust the pommie"?

[Johan Heyns]

Oupa, You're absolutely right.  Below the definition of Encarta.

You can trust a Soutie as far as you can throw him!!!

ou·pa [ ṓ p ] (plural ou·pas)
noun  South Africa 
Definition:
1. Same as  grandfathern (sense 1)
2. Man of advanced age: a man of advanced age
[Early 20th century. < Afrikaans, "grandfather" < ou "old" + pa "father"]  
 

[rolly_wood]

Oupa, Boet, Soutie, Pommie, one day perhaps I will succed to understand.... Now the definition of Oupa is helping me. But who is Soutie? are you Johan? Southafrica?

Happy Easter to you all!

[Johan Heyns]

Canada : Canuck = John Devost = Boet = a young man.  A form of addressing a younger man.  In John's case it unfortunately means a young man who needs firm guidance to keep him on track, even if you have to give him a few slaps now and again!

USA : DCBluesman = Lou Metcalf = Oupa (Definition below)

England : Skiprat = Steven Jackson = Soutie (If you have one foot in England and one foot in Africa or were born there, you are stretched beyond limits and the third leg then hangs in the salt water between England and Africa, hence Salty or in Afrikaans Soutie). 

Pommie = An Englishman and in most cases meant disrespectfully, because they seem to think that they know everything and that the sun shines out of their arses, which means it becomes dark whenever they deem it fit to go and sit on a chair!

South Africa : Johan Heyns = Ou Toppie which is also an old man, but younger than an Oupa. Sometimes meant disrespectfully but in most cases just a form of address.

Afrikaans is a wonderfully expressive langauge with which you can describe people and things very well.

[rolly_wood]

thanks Johan, this is helping me....

To feel myself part of the community, I need an afrikaans nick for me too..

[cubefan]

hello Johan

so it is real good that germans are only germans ??!!

happy easter greetings
Utahfan
Bernhard

[Canuck]

hello Johan

so it is real good that germans are only germans ??!!

happy easter greetings
Utahfan
Bernhard

Oh, I'm sure Ou Toppie has a word for a 'German (play )cowboy'

[Johan Heyns]

One does not in general bugger around with Germans.  Quite a few of them has a very limited and constricted anal retentive sense of humour, at least the ones I had anything to do with.   Don't know if its the Teutonic influence.  Most of the time they take it too personal.

Looks like Berhardt is the exception, and I'm really glad that he's not a real uptight Prussian with a ramrod up his backside.  Life's too short.  One needs some fun and joking to bat away some of the knocks and rocks that come your way.

When I went to school the first time, we had to write a composition.  Since the region where I grew up nobody and I mean nobody spoke English, my skills in that regard was really limited.  But, it was the law that you had to take English and Afrikaans in school.  So my composition was about a cowboy, but the composition was in Afrikaans.  So how do you translate COWBOY.   Well a cow is a "koei" in afrikaans and a boy is a "seun"  so I wrote about this KOEISEUN.  To this day my family poke fun at me about this.  So Bernhardt, you are officially named KOEISEUN.  The correct translation for Cowboy is BEESWAGTER, which means somebody who tend to cattle mainly from the back of a horse.  As you can see, the law forced me to learn English, so at least I have a limited grasp and means of communication with the outside world.

With regards to Rolly, the media has for a long time made Italians out to be mostly Mafia etc.  So I'll have to think carefully of an Afrikaans nickname so as not to give offence.  I really do not want somebody with a lupo out to get me.  So you'll have to wait for a bit Rolando.  This needs real carefull consideration.

[rolly_wood]

Ok i will wait. I will be not offended at all, unfortunately I know what italians exported around the world. I have only to say that Italy is narrow and 1300 km long, until 150 years ago was not an only country but a cluster of counties with many dominations. Concerning myself I live in a region which before WWI belonged to austria-hungarian empire. My father was born as austrian. We have almost no mafia here (not more than average world level) but, seen from the other hemisphere, we may appear to have nearly the same character of germans (Bernhard won't agree probably).... and the same defects you are contesting to them. Bernhard who lived here for a period can confirm or not this view..