Swamp Donkey
December 1, 2005 | 20 Comments
While watching an episode of the British version of The Office, Dawn and Keith are having a discussion about “bum bags” and he explains to her that in the states they are called fanny packs. He then explains this is because “fanny” in the states means your arse and not your “minge.”
At this point I needed to know what the heck “minge” was. Turns out “minge” is a synonym in Britain for vagina. On the site where I found that, they also list “minjer” as a term meaning “really ugly woman” also synonymous with “swamp donkey”.
I love it. I’ve never heard anyone be called a swamp donkey but that’s the funniest sounding insult I’ve heard in a long time.
As a side note, while Google image searching for swamp donkey, I turned up a label for Swamp Donkey Cider. If I follow the synonyms backwards, I’m truly frightened about the secret ingredient…
Tags: britain, british, donkey, humor, insult, minge, minger, office, swamp, swamp donkey, the office
Funny British Radio Ad
January 13, 2005 | 5 Comments
I spend most my days listening to Virgin Radio broadcast out of London, UK. Lately there has been this really funny ad playing a few times a day. It sounds quite a bit like a Monty Python skit, or Douglas Adams conversation. Your basic quality british humor. Anyway, I was telling a friend about it, and then got the idea to see if I could turn it up somewhere on the net. Apparently the Radio Advertising Bureau allows you to sign up and download any of the radio ads they’ve allowed broadcast since sometime in 1998 or so. Fairly interesting and useful resource.
Check out the ad here
Tags: advertisement, british, humor, radio, virgin radio