cam_i_am

Part of the point (the whole point?) of rhyming slang is that it’s opaque and convoluted. That’s what makes it fun. It also makes it a bit of a shibboleth - you only understand it if you’re part of the culture.

If you’re eating with an Australian and they ask you to “pass the dead horse”, it means they think you’re Aussie enough to know what it means. Or they know that you won’t know what it means and they’re fucking with you intentionally.

nods Lady, of Gaga.

Fun fact: in the rest of the world it’s just called “licorice”. No black. That red stuff isn’t licorice at all.

Fun fact: Lady Gaga chose that name because of that song.

You can tell it’s made up because it has “it’s said that” in it.

Looks like one of these babies

Borat voice my wiiiiiiiife

Wow, haven’t seen a roflcopter in a long time.

They have played us for absolute fools.

It’s one word, all lower case, four words, all upper case.