Silly comebacks was pronounciation

junediamanti june.diamanti at blueyonder.co.uk
Tue Feb 10 11:25:03 UTC 2004


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Haggridd" 
<jkusalavagemd at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "junediamanti" 
> <june.diamanti at b...> wrote:
>  
> > Another - origin and meaning lost in the mists of time:
> > 
> > "Dad where are you going?"
> > 
> > "To see Charlie Icecake"
> > 
> > (No I dunno what it means either - I think it was grown-up 
> for "mind 
> > your own business").
> > 
> > June
> 
> "To see Charlie Icecake" is a reference to the round white icy-
> looking deoderant cakes placed in each urinal in public mens' 
> rooms.  It means to relieve oneself.
> 
> Other variants-- for which I have no origins-- are:
> 
> To see a man about a dog.
> 
> To see a man about a horse. 
> 
> To spend a penny (pay toilet?)
> 
> Haggridd

I call the above toilet references and raise the following:

Off to sit on the doughnut in granny's greenhouse.

June





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