UK translation, please?

[RedRock]

see www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/getfuzzy-20060921.html

There's more in today's strip, too, but it's not yet available.

[Garp {eng}]

[RedRock]

Holy frigging cow !!!

What language was that, then

LOL LOL LOL

Thanks, Garp, that made the strip very very enjoyable!

[Garp {eng}]

[RedRock]

LOL, I'm still laughing. Throw a wobbly! Where does that imagery come from? LOL!

[Garp {eng}]

Just like "lovely Jubbly" where it comes from who knows? but is used a lot er and others beside.
I always gota watch wot I write in forums or my words can become like a lost language to you americans. LOL

Anyway geezer, I'll keep me minces peeled for more gear and translate them for ya, I'll get stick for it from the others but do I give a tinkers cuss? na!

[Garp {eng}]

[RedRock]

OK, OK, LOL, I just HAVE to ask: Do people really talk like that as a regular dialect, or is it totally intentionally chosen to confound others, especially Americans? Do "regular" Brits understand it, or only the......sect? group? area? felons?.......that speak that way???

[Garp {eng}]

The dialect is spoken in the east of london (where I came from) it is somewhat as you see it but we dunna use it in full (a lot is shortend, like "china plate" is shortnd to just china, or boat race is used more anyway) I would say that ya yanks seem to underline it a bit and over do it.
But as a speak yeah we do use it. just like your reagions use there's.
Exsample Cajen (or howerver you spell it) thats as forign to me as mine is to you. I tend not to write mine as it confuse people and can lead to misunderstandings.

You want wired dialect ask pops or monk, there northerners, and I can't understand them when they get into it?

well I'm off the apples to get me minces shut, gota hard days work morrows and I'm cream cracked, I get me ands on me dough this week so off to the pub for some sherbets this wend and gonna get well sloshed up.
Cya Geezer.

[RedRock]

Thanks, Garp. You know my comments are all in fun. I can't believe that any Americans actually use as many idioms as the Brit cat is using in the cartoon strip, but I will start paying attention from now on. I do recall a few phrases I've learned here and there--"carry me to the doctor" (take me to the doctor's office) in North Carolina was one that confused me, for example--I imagined the 300+ pound lady saying it being thrown over the shoulder of her 170 pound husband and literally being carried and then being dropped at the foot of the doctor, the first time I heard that... Another one was "I went to see a man about a dog." I first heard that in North Carolina, too, and there it was a classmate who had missed a day of school, and upon his return, I innocently asked (as we sat next to each other in lab) where he had been, and he gave the dog answer. I was interested in dogs and hunting, so I said, "Oh, What kind?" His jaw dropped open and he stared at me and then just left the room. Later I learned that it means "None of your business." Oh, that reminds me of two more stories, both from North Carolina:

1) The crusty old surgeon was telling the dirt-poor, uneducated hillbilly family about Grandma's intestinal problems (a tumor with severely dilated bowel), and he chose to use the mountain folk term "locked bowels" as something he hoped they might understand. The youngest of the bunch from the family, a self-admitted auto mechanic and smarty-pants, objected and said, if she's got locked bowels how come she's got the runs (diarrhea), to which the surgeon, without missing a beat, responded "because they're locked in the "open" position. That satisfied all of them.

2) I and several other students and our instructing Resident Physician were on the elevator one day going up from the basement when it stopped on the second floor and an old boy stepped on and politely and clearly asked us for the 7th floor: "Mash number seven?" Now, the accent was two syllables for mash (maa-aash), and number was "num-buh," and seven was 3 syllables (say-uh-vuhn), but I didn't think anything of it at all (hint: Ah grew up tawkin' lahk that), but after he got out, our Resident couldn't contain himself any longer and launched into a tirade of good Northeast USA Hahvad College speech about how "One chooses, selects, presses, opts for, etc. the floor indicator, one does NOT "maa-aash!'"

[Garp {eng}]

"One chooses, selects, presses, opts for, etc. the floor indicator, one does NOT "maa-aash!'"

We just "jam ya thumb in the bugger" here ;-)

Well gota go jimmy riddle, You know, shake hands with the unemployed? cya.