I had a long day at work today, although that's hardly an excuse for the following comments that I made this evening on the way home from having dinner with our neighbors:
Mike (neighbor)- "look, there's a rainbow. I can see all the colors - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet"
Jason (his 7yr old son) - "I didn't know there were 8 colors in a rainbow"
Liz - "yup"
Mike - "no there aren't, there are 7 - ROY G BIV - way to go liz"
later on we're driving home and we missed the turn to the neighbors house (other side of the loop...)
Mike - "Kurt, why don't you just drive around the block?"
Kurt - "it's just easier to flip a louie"
Liz - "what's a louie?"
Kurt- "Mike, tell her what a louie is"
Mike- "it's a u-turn to the left"
Liz- "well, then what do you call a u-turn to the right?"
Kurt- "have you ever made a u-turn to the right?" (huh, maybe that's my problem...)
5 comments:
You can plead ignorance on the "Louie" thing. It's east coast slang.
Got no help for you on the colors of the rainbow thing.
it's a rouie. duh.
In England you make U-turns to the right, they call them "Edmunds". Well, Bob's your uncle and all that.
Is that edmunds thing true? I don't get the uncle thing...
"Bob's your uncle" = English slang.
Liz, the internet is your friend. I'm not nearly as knowledgable as people think I just know where to look for information.
From Wikipedia:
Bob's your uncle is a commonly used expression known mainly in Britain and Commonwealth countries. It is often used immediately following a set of simple instructions and roughly carries the same meaning as the phrase "and there you have it." For example, "Simply put a piece of ham between two slices of bread, and Bob’s your uncle!”.
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