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Posted on: The Red Spectrum of Meaning
February 28, 2010 at 3:01 PM

Or a proof-reader, hehe. Hey, I gave you fair warning - my reply was within the 15 minute window for an edit.

Rest assured that it's not a phrase people use - it just sounds like a strong innuendo. Keep 'em coming ! :)

Posted on: The Red Spectrum of Meaning
February 28, 2010 at 2:40 PM

Hehe. It sounds a bit naughty to me :0

Posted on: The Red Spectrum of Meaning
February 28, 2010 at 2:25 PM

I think you meant 'holding'. Freudian slip ?

Didn't you mean letting the wife be in control at home ? If not, I apologise, Changye - there are definitely hidden depths to you :)

Posted on: The Red Spectrum of Meaning
February 28, 2010 at 1:11 PM

"Holing the wife" ?? I thought you were a gentleman, changye !

Posted on: Pirates under attack!
February 27, 2010 at 9:22 AM

I just bin 'avin a google (it be legal in private), Barnacle Phil, an 'ere be what I found:

Dead Man's Chest is a tiny isle that forms part of the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea. Local history and folklore claims that pirate Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard, punished a mutinous crew by marooning them on Dead Man's Chest, which has high cliffs and no water and is inhabited by pelicans and snakes. Each sailor was given a cutlass and a bottle of rum.

Teach's hope was that the pirates would kill each other, but when he returned after a month he found 15 men had survived. This would explain the verse: "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest. Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

Shiver me timbers.

Black Dog

Posted on: Pirates under attack!
February 26, 2010 at 9:31 AM

Xiaophil : I thinks it be a dead man's 箱子 (but not a suitcase - Davy Jones' suitcase ?). Yo HeHe !

Arrrrrrrrh!

Black Dog Brick

Posted on: Buying a Shirt
February 24, 2010 at 5:09 PM

A word of caution to the uninitiated : "my old man" also refers to a certain appendage (when spoken of by the owner of said appendage )

Girls, if some chappie asks you if you would like to see his old man, this can be taken in any of three ways. ( and the context does not always clarify )

Posted on: 郑和七下西洋
February 24, 2010 at 12:05 PM

Must be due to the raping and pillaging and raping.

Posted on: I Got Married
February 20, 2010 at 7:07 PM

It's a typo

Posted on: Leaky Pipes and Faucets
February 19, 2010 at 6:31 PM

I can't access the lesson because I'm not a subscriber, so I don't know what kind of valve is being referred to. But there are lots of valves used in domestic plumbing and central-heating systems. eg. the fill valve in the flush tank of a toilet prevents flooding due to overflow.