Uxbridge English Dictionary

[90019]

Asserting - Painful bottom

Painting - An instrument of torture in Jamaica.
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GOVIA - failing railway company run according to the philosophy of Michael Gove

Bregret: What many Leave voters are now feeling
Leadsom: A poison which can be used to kill off your country's hopes of stable leadership

May: The world's slowest Prime Minister

I have to take issue with these, since they don't work in the context of the thread and are just political sniping.
Take it to another thread, please, this stuff doesn't belong here.

 

[IanD]

May: The world's slowest Prime Minister

I have to take issue with these, since they don't work in the context of the thread and are just political sniping.
Take it to another thread, please, this stuff doesn't belong here.

Does this one work in the context of any thread?

 

[Busaholic]

Painting - An instrument of torture in Jamaica.
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I have to take issue with these, since they don't work in the context of the thread and are just political sniping.
Take it to another thread, please, this stuff doesn't belong here.

I take it you haven't listened to many of the original radio programmes because there are often satirical references. Seeing as how I started the thread in the first place, perhaps I should ban myself. However, I will seek to ensure that any further examples are in context, but if they happen to also be topical I shan't apologise.

 

[90019]

I own many series of it.
There are indeed satirical references, but they're supposed to be puns, which those aren't.

 

[Harbornite]

Does it matter?

 

[317 forever]

GOVIA - failing railway company run according to the philosophy of Michael Gove

Who said satire was dead? Well, me actually...

Via is Italian for Away. So, Govia could be translated as Go Away!
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Bregret: What many Leave voters are now feeling
Leadsom: A poison which can be used to kill off your country's hopes of stable leadership

Leadsom - a talent that this leadership contender is not talented to do. She cannot leadsom because she cannot lead anyone!

 

[krus_aragon]

Meteorology - Studying why the dinosaurs died out.

 

[PaxVobiscum]

Digital

what you will be doing with it in <5 years

 

[Busaholic]

I own many series of it.
There are indeed satirical references, but they're supposed to be puns, which those aren't.

Show broadcast this lunchtime;-

BREXIT - breakfast cereal laxative, courtesy of Barry Cryer. TRUMP has also come up a couple of times recently, and the definition given by Jeremy Hardy doesn't fit your guidelines! They are meant to make you think and then laugh, but, of course, there will always be some who don't find them funny or who just don't get them.

 

[Harbornite]

Pokemon- how to annoy a Jamaican guy

 

[backontrack]

Theresa - Jar-Jar Binks upon seeing an orchard

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Theresa - Jar-Jar Binks upon seeing an orchard

Theresa May - a brand of shampoo...

 

[krus_aragon]

Penultimate - The best biro in the world

 

[Harbornite]

Discontent- what one can find when the camping shop has a sale.

 

[Howardh]

Disappear?
Jamaican looking at a long jetty.

 

[Harbornite]

Beercan- the most popular filling for sandwiches in Jamaica

 

[backontrack]

Coventry: A bit like an area of London with the suffix '-Garden'

 

[Harbornite]

Bunting- what a jamaican adds to his beercan to make a sandwich.

That'll be the last of my Jamaican ones for now.

 

[317 forever]

Grayling - an ageing duckling

Wallaby - a town in Yorkshire. When a wallaby appeared on the Leeds-Manchester line delaying trains, it sounded like a name of a Yorkshire town.

 

[Harbornite]

Jellyfish- an aquatic animal that's envious of others.

 

[Welshman]

riparian

One who presides over collections of mature fruit.


sic transit gloria mundi

Our Gloria was ill on the bus last Monday

 

[Harbornite]

In loco parentis- When one of your parents is a train driver.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Catalogue - The litter tray needs changing...

 

[Harbornite]

DOOdlebug- a rocket powered missile developed by the DFT for for purpose of destroying the headquarters of railway unions.

 

[Welshman]

catwalk

Route taken by prowling felines seeking a mate


bulwark

Bovine equivalent


bailiwick

Faulty candle

 

[Harbornite]

Vibrator- a device used to rate the vibe of a nightclub

 

[krus_aragon]

Universe - Student poetry

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Universe - Student poetry

Unilever - A graduate.

 

[Harbornite]

Unisex- let's not go there...

 

[Lockwood]

Unicorn Tinned sweetcorn bought by students

Uniform Paperwork from UCAS

Twerk What a Yorkshireman goes every day

Trent What a Yorkshireman pays to live somewhere