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JeffKardde: What, get electronics degrees? Make number plates? What..? Oh that. No. Not quite...
Nimrod: Yeah, that "secret stuff in MS WIndows" made me weep with laughter (still sniggering). Go figure.
And I suppose shifting could be viewed as someone (i.e. one of the participants) getting a "bad deal", but not in the same sense as outright "shafting". The intent is rarely malicious.
Lewd yes, sometimes romantic, but rarely malicious.
Orion Syndicate
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We probably should have a thread where regional colloquialisms are mentioned and have everyone else guess what it means.
A while back, we had great laugh watching as everyone tried to work out what the word 'bollocks' meant.
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Orion Syndicate
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It was well over a year ago, when our long departed friend, Monty, posted a thread about O'Briens exclamation in Times Orphan. A lot of people didn't know what it meant.
As for "shifting", I've heard the word used in a various number of contexts, but not in the context to which I think you're referring. Then again, I may be well off the mark.
------------------ Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
Orion Syndicate
He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!
Member # 25
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O'Brien shouted the word 'bollocks' when he was trying to fix this time portal that Molly had fallen into. A console exploded, and then he was heard to shout "aah bollocks".
As for the meaning of the word 'shifting', is it an Irish colloquialism for kissing? That's one of the contexts that I've heard the word used anyway and from your descriptions, it's the only one that fits.
------------------ Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
Orion Syndicate
He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!
Member # 25
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YES! I've won a er... what!? of creme eggs?
*wonders if this thread will disintegrate into the farce of previous creme egg threads*
And now for the next mission, what is a smoglagblodge?
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[This message has been edited by Orion Syndicate (edited February 07, 2001).]
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Hmm. I should have read this thread earlier,but I ignored it, because I thought that a car thread would turn into a "my penis is bigger than your penis".
Which it didn't. But this is almost as bad. What sort of car does Simon drive anyway? Concorde?
------------------ "And Mojo was hurt and I would have kissed his little boo boo but then I realized he was a BAD monkey so I KICKED HIM IN HIS FACE!" -Bubbles
when O'Brien said bollocks. How'd that slip in? Ooh, Matron!!
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