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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