SheriffFatman
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Post by SheriffFatman on Oct 3, 2013 15:39:03 GMT 1
I know this is juvenile, and that the word has various different meanings in America, but here's two lyrics that always make me giggle, courtesy of Kenny Rogers and Run DMC... "And then he bummed a cigarette..." "Like a bum eating out of a garbage can..." Visualising these is great fun  Has anyone got any others? |
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Post by SheriffFatman on Oct 4, 2013 15:19:14 GMT 1
No one? Must just be my sense of humour... The Kenny Rogers one especially cracks me up. Not the sort of behaviour you expect from an old man on a train... |
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 4, 2013 15:43:28 GMT 1
I thought "bum" as a verb was standard English. There's the term bum-bailiff for a debt collector...
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Post by SheriffFatman on Oct 4, 2013 21:47:48 GMT 1
I thought "bum" as a verb was standard English. There's the term bum-bailiff for a debt collector... Really? Maybe it's a regional thing. There's only one thing that 'bum' means in the North West. I think we would call asking for something for free 'cadge'. |
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Post by suedehead on Oct 4, 2013 22:02:09 GMT 1
Well, there's always this...
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Post by paulgilb on Oct 4, 2013 22:43:44 GMT 1
Other songs with 'bum' or some variant in the title:
Carl Malcolm - Fattie Bum Bum
A Tribe Called Quest - Bonita Applebum
Cheeky Girls - Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)
and of course there are many songs with 'bump' in their titles.
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Post by suedehead on Oct 4, 2013 22:58:37 GMT 1
Other songs with 'bum' or some variant in the title: Carl Malcolm - Fattie Bum Bum A Tribe Called Quest - Bonita Applebum Cheeky Girls - Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum) and of course there are many songs with 'bump' in their titles. You mean like this one  |
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Post by raliverpool on Oct 4, 2013 23:05:41 GMT 1
Mike Smash, DJ, Radio Fab FM November 1984:
"Listeners I have in my hand a piece of filth, the new single by Paul Mccartney & the Frogs Chorus which contains the refrain "bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum". I don't want to hear about your nether reasons and I'm not playing this sh*t on my radio show. Here's Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax..."
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 4, 2013 23:36:10 GMT 1
I thought "bum" as a verb was standard English. There's the term bum-bailiff for a debt collector... Really? Maybe it's a regional thing. There's only one thing that 'bum' means in the North West. I think we would call asking for something for free 'cadge'. In Birmingham we helpfully use 'lend'. "Can I lend a quid off ya?" Probably fortunate, in that asking for a meatball from someone might get very tricky. Looking up the OED, "bum" as "borrow" started off in the States in the middle of the 19th century, and derives from the word for a vagrant. A recent one under the American usage is one from The Raveonettes. |
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Has anyone got any others?
