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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:22 am
 just for good measure wink
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:28 am
Once more onto the post dear friends, once more or bump up the page with our English dead
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:29 am
England expects everyman to Bump
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 2:42 pm
whats a bump? confused confused confused confused confused confused confused confused
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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:23 am
BUMP. May I ask who Blighty is? redface
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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 10:16 am
Blighty
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Blighty is a British English slang term for Great Britain, deriving from the Hindustani word bilāyatī (विलायती), meaning "foreign", related to the Arabic word wilayat, meaning a kingdom or province. The term was more common in the later days of the British Raj, but can now be considered self-consciously archaic and, when used by speakers younger than the collapse of the British Empire, is generally intended slightly ironically.
According to World Wide Words, Sir Henry Yule and Arthur C Burnell explained in their Anglo-Indian dictionary, Hobson-Jobson, published in 1886, that the word came to be used, in British India, for several things the British had brought into the country, such as the tomato (bilayati baingan) and soda water, which was commonly called bilayati pani, or "foreign water".
During World War I, "Dear Old Blighty" was a common sentimental reference, suggesting a longing for home by soldiers in the trenches. The term was particularly used by World War I poets, such as Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. During that war, a "Blighty" was also used to mean a wound serious enough to require recuperation away from the trenches (that is, in Blighty)
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Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 1:02 pm
georgehippo whats a bump? confused confused confused confused confused confused confused confused Let me put this another way........IN fact NO, i'll just say it again....WHATS A BUMP??? evil evil evil evil
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 2:20 pm
bump means...
Bring
Up
My
Post
a simple way of getting your thread to the front page of the forum, on here it has become a way of earning gold when you don't actually have anything to say, people's quest threads are populated almost exclusively by bumps
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:02 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 7:03 pm
BrotherOfDarkness England expects everyman to Bump
But why start following rules Now???
BUUUUMMMMPPP
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:27 am
WickedOrange Guess I can't bump because I'm not English and at least the last time I checked, I wasn't a man!
Well i certainly won't hold either against you...especially the latter twisted
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 3:14 pm
better behave yourself hippo, there is a Mr.WickedOrange aswell, and a rugrat or so too, hmmm, so will Oranges offspring be Tangerines??
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:30 pm
jellysundae better behave yourself hippo, there is a Mr.WickedOrange aswell, and a rugrat or so too, hmmm, so will Oranges offspring be Tangerines??
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:17 pm
jellysundae better behave yourself hippo, there is a Mr.WickedOrange aswell, and a rugrat or so too, hmmm, so will Oranges offspring be Tangerines??
I do suppose I should thank you for guarding against hippo, though...? wink
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