I absolutely agree with you! Just like Paul's Pics say a thousand words and are worded in such a clever way the meaning is cleverly transfixed/transposed to you.

Ped, I came to this country in 1979 and it took me quite some time to get used to those sayings and their meanings. I still to this day come across certain sayings and I am perplexed by them. I often, still mix the phrases up and often make up my own and people look at me like I am from Mars.

PH, that story, WoW, Fantastic! Thank you for sharing that.

Pedrinho wrote:

ParrotHead wrote: Pedro, I love that you don't get some of the expressions used here. It reminds m how ridiculous our language can be. I used to volunteer as an ESL instructor. My favorite part was the 10 minutes we reserved at the end of each class to explain euphemisms.

Goose step, refers to a type of marching. Watch old film of Russian or German soldiers marching. It means that we don't just keep in step because we are all part of the same group. If something smells fishy, we are going to call it out, not just accept it.

BS refers to bull poo. Just an abbreviation.

Plus one karma for you.

Thanks, PH. If you meant that euphemisms could make language "ridiculous", I disagree; they add spice in texts and in conversations, as many other language tricks do (I don't know how to say it in English, but in Portuguese these "tricks" are called "Figuras de Linguagem" - Language Figures, in English, I guess - am I right?)
But feel free to laugh and having fun with my "engrich"!

Ped,
Caution reading Davy Crockett's daily entries on the thread.. You may never want to try and master English reading his backwoods Tennessee humor.. Good luck.. If you do understand his jokes, could you please explain them to the rest of us?? Thanks Ped

Language, its a fckin funny old kettle of fish, excuse my french, but a nods as good as a wink to a blind man.

Flyingmuck wrote: Language, its a fckin funny old kettle of fish, excuse my french, but a nods as good as a wink to a blind man.

Just don't spit on me, I'll think it's raining...

PED: My post was in response to a post on another squad's thread that if ANYONE in the DF community has a complaint about a member of their squad, should report to THEM via PM (not on the forum, hence, the "B.S. cover-up". It was directed to all M.O.Ms. WE DON'T TAKE ORDERS FROM ANOTHER SQUAD.

"Turkey-trot" has several meanings, one of which is a dance.
M.O.Ms don't dance to another squad's tune. Especially, when the band is so out of tune.
"Goose-step" refers to a peculiar marching style that came to the forefront in the public's awareness in WW2.

(I couldn't find a real goose-stepping goose. Besides, this "turkey" was much more in context.)

It's all "water under the Bridge" Over Troubled Waters".
(Good tune, by the way.)

bellsaj wrote: Dang you Parrot
Have you given me psittacosis or what?
You put something in my empty head and now it bounces around in there as a ball in a pinnball machine.
I cant get it out
I NEED HELP
Call the men in white I need my huggyourselfswetter
Dead gammit Parrot
why why WHY did ya

What are you talking about, Tink?

Maybe if I'll manage to get it out of my now overfilled skull you will know.

Hey I heard that you guy had a youth group and I was told to introduce myself. My name is Chris and I was wondering what all the requirments wher for a youth member of M.O.M. My name explains that I'm from Kansas and I am 16 I would like to get more information about M.O.M. Thank you for your time and if you could leave me a private message because I'm still trying to figure out this site sorry.

bellsaj wrote: Maybe if I'll manage to get it out of my now overfilled skull you will know.

I think I know...

Captain Noushbag wrote:

bellsaj wrote: Maybe if I'll manage to get it out of my now overfilled skull you will know.

I think I know...

Ooooo pretty!

M4rtin wrote: I absolutely agree with you! Just like Paul's Pics say a thousand words and are worded in such a clever way the meaning is cleverly transfixed/transposed to you.

Ped, I came to this country in 1979 and it took me quite some time to get used to those sayings and their meanings. I still to this day come across certain sayings and I am perplexed by them. I often, still mix the phrases up and often make up my own and people look at me like I am from Mars.

PH, that story, WoW, Fantastic! Thank you for sharing that.

M4tin? M4tin? Ohhhh heck, I always thought that said Martian... You mean your not from MARS?? I've been telling all my friends I knew a Martian, now I have to retract that? How embarrassing!! I sure am glad your not a Falcon !

Kanzan wrote: Hey I heard that you guy had a youth group and I was told to introduce myself. My name is Chris and I was wondering what all the requirments wher for a youth member of M.O.M. My name explains that I'm from Kansas and I am 16 I would like to get more information about M.O.M. Thank you for your time and if you could leave me a private message because I'm still trying to figure out this site sorry.

Hello and welcome.
Read page 1. Memorize RULE 6 (backwards)
SPUT & STRIKER will contact you. Be prepared. Their test is difficult.

SheiBe Kopf wrote:

M4rtin wrote: I absolutely agree with you! Just like Paul's Pics say a thousand words and are worded in such a clever way the meaning is cleverly transfixed/transposed to you.

Ped, I came to this country in 1979 and it took me quite some time to get used to those sayings and their meanings. I still to this day come across certain sayings and I am perplexed by them. I often, still mix the phrases up and often make up my own and people look at me like I am from Mars.

PH, that story, WoW, Fantastic! Thank you for sharing that.

M4tin? M4tin? Ohhhh heck, I always thought that said Martian... You mean your not from MARS?? I've been telling all my friends I knew a Martian, now I have to retract that? How embarrassing!! I sure am glad your not a Falcon !

Shhhhhh, it is called dis-information, a trick I learned.......[/color]

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SheiBe Kopf wrote: Ped,
Caution reading Davy Crockett's daily entries on the thread.. You may never want to try and master English reading his backwoods Tennessee humor.. Good luck.. If you do understand his jokes, could you please explain them to the rest of us?? Thanks Ped

Geez, this world is really huge!
In fact, here in Brazil, people from distant, different places (Amazonia, Pampas Gauchos, Nordeste, etc.) need to speak slow when talking each other. Theere are many differences, and the same thing sometimes have different names...
I imagine I will need luck indeed, Sheibe!


But rest asured: this forum is making my "engrich" better a little each day!

I see you Chet, and sorry for the posts' galore today, I've got the day off sshhhh don't let the wife see this

B Strachan wrote: hey guys having trouble getting on WTF says cant find my acc. Then says password incorrect. Then I have sent ur password to it email but there is nothing this game gets worse and worse

Sorry Brian I had to take off from our game. Who's Butterfly anyways?

Kanzan wrote: Hey I heard that you guy had a youth group and I was told to introduce myself. My name is Chris and I was wondering what all the requirments wher for a youth member of M.O.M. My name explains that I'm from Kansas and I am 16 I would like to get more information about M.O.M. Thank you for your time and if you could leave me a private message because I'm still trying to figure out this site sorry.

I like this guy already. You will, too, when you see his home video application:

What's sad is that yes I used to have a toy tractor just like that now belongs to my nephew

Just to sum to the "blacklist" post I wrote in the previous page, (sorry, Paul), I need to register one more: his name is Lugar.

I entered in a BTC game when my ship had only 30%, and red ship had 90%. Me an two other blues, against 5 reds - one of them Lugar.
Probably by reading my name, he deduced that I could be brazilian, so he asked me about it. After my answer, he begun to yell "Macaco!" each time I was brought down. And he kept calling me "Macaco" and "Macaquito", and by this "ito" in the end of the word, I discovered he was Spanigh speaker (in portuguese, there is no "ito"; we use "inho" instead). And for the way he was trying to mess with me with the word Macaco (Monkey, in Portuguese), I deduced that he could probably be an argentinian. That's because, unfortunately, poor minded brazilian and poor minded argentinian uses to be rude with each other, and use to make racial jokes, etc - historical rivaltry that grew up after Pelé and Maradona... lol

The reds kept putting us on flame, and the score reached 90-10, when the game became a 4 reds versus 4 blue battle. From then on, we begun to bring their ship down quickly. When the score reached 30-10, and when blue team was pushing hard, this racist showed himself a coward too, because he just said "bye, Macaco" and left the game. We managed to win that session, by the way. How I wish that scum were present to see that... sigh...

I am not complaining about being called "macaco", and I didn't even answered him - I just ignored him. I am 43, and I laugh with these things. But what if he was talking that way with a black or "mulato" little brazilian boy???

So, if some Lugar ever asks for MOM subscription, please, Starchamber members, give him a big NO!
And if some argentinian asks for the same, first be sure that is not him! (he can be a spanish, or someone from Uruguay, or Paraguay, who knows...)

PED: Don't get me wrong. Posting here is informative. Our desire is to keep everything open. We want to know such things, while some others pray to keep things hidden amongst virtual "paperwork".

For our NERDS: Your new video helped me to make more sense of the "Bomb Conundrum":

Thanks.

No, Paul, no way I would take you wrong! Im your fan!

I just asked some things to clear out some language issues.

By the way, today I saw how big is this squad!!!!! I met a player whos ingame name I don't remember right now, but as soon as he logged in, he said "Hi Ped!!! I am Icarus!"

And when I saw he was wearing MOM tag, I became curious, because I participate a lot on this forum and never, ever, heard of him... So, I asked: "r u a MOM?" - what I regreated doing, by the way - I should be more polite with him... So, if yuo are reading this, Icarus, please accept my appologies!

One thing that I forgot to mention in my introduction is that I love cake, ESPESIALY the Triple German Chocolate cake, NOM NOM NOM. But other than cake I love to shoot traditional Black Powder rifles ( I own a Hawken style Fifty Four cal rifle ) with the KMA! I am also a big outdoors man and almost a Eagle Scout! But really, I do like cake!!!!!

Kanzan wrote: One thing that I forgot to mention in my introduction is that I love cake, ESPESIALY the Triple German Chocolate cake, NOM NOM NOM. But other than cake I love to shoot traditional Black Powder rifles ( I own a Hawken style Fifty Four cal rifle ) with the KMA! I am also a big outdoors man and almost a Eagle Scout! But really, I do like cake!!!!!

A scout is (from memory):
Trustworthy
Loyal
Helpful
Friendly
Courteous
Kind
Obedient
Cheerful
Thrifty
Brave
Clean
And reverent

Put that boy on the prodigy squad.

Life, Kanzan?

Dent congratz n your ranking...sorry so late friend....john

Hey Head of Parrot, didn't realize it was your birthday 2 weeks ago Happy B-Lated B-Day my brotha in arms (ehmm just ignore the name on the cake...and the wrong age...and the logo, sorry, it was the only parrothead cake I could find )

The cakes perfect, thanks! Yeah, tried to let it slip past. I'm officially "IN" my 40s now. I think that's one of the reasons I hang around MOM's squadroom so much. Being around you old coots makes me feel younger.

Won't be playin till tomorrow I'm sitting in Wichita KS at the airport. Waiting on my daughters plane to get in. She is in the Air Force and has a furlough so we get a week with her. Awesome. Passing some time reading the forum while we wait.

1 what do you like about MOM
Everyone can look for and find a punch line in everything

2. Quality or quantity
Any game to where the opposition says KA5EY and that team was tough. Don't care about kills hangars ships or reads

3. Facorite MOM???

Big Tex helped me a bunch when I was brand new
Parrothead. Got me in here
YEMX has my vote
He is what I think you all want a MOM to be

He tells me all the time thank you so much you miserable mother f*cking son of a b*tch and then he kills me in my chute. (Rule9)

I hate to vote for anyone honestly because I haven't had the privilege of playing around you guys as much as some.

That's my vote as of tonight before the deadline.
If YEMX shoots me down again I might blacklist him;).

In response to Richy's thread

PARROTCRAP: OPEN CAREFULLY!
Personally from me:

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From all of your friends here in M.O.M's kitchen to you.
Appreciate the sacrifices made just to make you happy!
There's a lot of good eggs here.


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