KHMER 440: 101
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KHMER 440: 101
taken from page 101 of the front page articles and published more than 16 years ago.
http://www.khmer440.com/k/2004/11/fear- ... -ambition/
Nice sentence:
My stallion Argonaut stood happily in the front paddock, chewing sugar cane, and smiling fondly at Peggy, his pink flanked companion and friend from Phnom Penh.
The entire thing reads as though written by someone with a bounce in their step as they walk and a smile on their face as they sit drinking that Pimms. Ah, life - it truly does chew and spit.
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Nice sentence:
My stallion Argonaut stood happily in the front paddock, chewing sugar cane, and smiling fondly at Peggy, his pink flanked companion and friend from Phnom Penh.
The entire thing reads as though written by someone with a bounce in their step as they walk and a smile on their face as they sit drinking that Pimms. Ah, life - it truly does chew and spit.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Playboy, can you settle a debate I had with another colonial on New Years:
The term, ‘Coolie’ -
I reckon it’s a British India classification for The Help, who’d fan you on a late April afternoon in Rangoon whilst 47 and 98% on the Humidistat.
He reckons it’s a Chinese labourer in Singapore.
Please confirm. Thank you.
The term, ‘Coolie’ -
I reckon it’s a British India classification for The Help, who’d fan you on a late April afternoon in Rangoon whilst 47 and 98% on the Humidistat.
He reckons it’s a Chinese labourer in Singapore.
Please confirm. Thank you.
Haha - my money’s on Playboy
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Indian originally, it simply meant 'Day Labourer' expecially porters (people who carried or moved stuff originally)
The Great and Glorious British Empire re-purposed it for any general unskilled labourer and given the length and breadth of The Empire it's usage spread across half of the known world.
Your friend should remember who it was that created Singapore.
As a quick side note. The help that fanned you was the punkahwallah. Again of Indian origin. From the Hindu words punkah, which refers to the movement of a birds wings (later to also mean a fan) and the word wallah, which loosely translates as 'man who does'. See also extended usage in such words as 'charwallah' - the man who makes the tea.
The Great and Glorious British Empire re-purposed it for any general unskilled labourer and given the length and breadth of The Empire it's usage spread across half of the known world.
Your friend should remember who it was that created Singapore.
As a quick side note. The help that fanned you was the punkahwallah. Again of Indian origin. From the Hindu words punkah, which refers to the movement of a birds wings (later to also mean a fan) and the word wallah, which loosely translates as 'man who does'. See also extended usage in such words as 'charwallah' - the man who makes the tea.
"We, the sons of John Company, have arrived"
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maybe not off topic but the term punkah was also used in the panavia tornado.
what i what otherwise encounter as diffuser vents amongst other names in the cockpit, the tornado vents were officialy named 'punkah louvres'.
the only aircraft type that i encountered that official name for the ecs vents.
what i what otherwise encounter as diffuser vents amongst other names in the cockpit, the tornado vents were officialy named 'punkah louvres'.
the only aircraft type that i encountered that official name for the ecs vents.
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One of the best things about this forum used to be how topics went off topic and morphed. People respectfully (on the whole) avoided taking the more learned topics that involved AiA Felg LTO LL Ot Mean Loi etc etc off topic but everything else was fair game.
I used to love not reading a topic after the first page (that seemed droll) until it reached 25 pages. I’d then wonder what all the fuss was about and find a gem.
Make 440 great again. Take it off topic.
101 as a thread title leaves the topic wide open anyway
I used to love not reading a topic after the first page (that seemed droll) until it reached 25 pages. I’d then wonder what all the fuss was about and find a gem.
Make 440 great again. Take it off topic.
101 as a thread title leaves the topic wide open anyway
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Whereas threads on most other forums follow along, mostly, on topic. I have always described 440 threads as more of a conversation in the pub. Once the initial topic is covered, it drifts organically along into other things - until the next drunkard starts a new topic, and so on and so forth.
"We, the sons of John Company, have arrived"
Definitely used in China too.Petrol Head wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2020 6:44 amPlayboy, can you settle a debate I had with another colonial on New Years:
The term, ‘Coolie’ -
I reckon it’s a British India classification for The Help, who’d fan you on a late April afternoon in Rangoon whilst 47 and 98% on the Humidistat.
He reckons it’s a Chinese labourer in Singapore.
Please confirm. Thank you.
It's a shame that "jam boy'" seems almost undocumented and lost to the mists of time.
He was the fella that was smeared in jam to keep the flies off the masters on their arduous trips into the provinces.
Traditionally they were always allowed to keep and lick the jam from themselves at the end of each day.
Bastards all got rich now.
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Muchos Gracias.RobW wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2020 8:50 amDefinitely used in China too.Petrol Head wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2020 6:44 amPlayboy, can you settle a debate I had with another colonial on New Years:
The term, ‘Coolie’ -
I reckon it’s a British India classification for The Help, who’d fan you on a late April afternoon in Rangoon whilst 47 and 98% on the Humidistat.
He reckons it’s a Chinese labourer in Singapore.
Please confirm. Thank you.
It's a shame that "jam boy'" seems almost undocumented and lost to the mists of time.
He was the fella that was smeared in jam to keep the flies off the masters on their arduous trips into the provinces.
Traditionally they were always allowed to keep and lick the jam from themselves at the end of each day.
Bastards all got rich now.
Haha - my money’s on Playboy
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Playboy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2020 8:44 amWhereas threads on most other forums follow along, mostly, on topic. I have always described 440 threads as more of a conversation in the pub. Once the initial topic is covered, it drifts organically along into other things - until the next drunkard starts a new topic, and so on and so forth.
Petrol Head wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2020 6:44 amPlayboy, can you settle a debate I had with another colonial on New Years:
The term, ‘Coolie’ -
I reckon it’s a British India classification for The Help, who’d fan you on a late April afternoon in Rangoon whilst 47 and 98% on the Humidistat.
He reckons it’s a Chinese labourer in Singapore.
Please confirm. Thank you.
It was never used for the ‘help’. It was used generically for unindentured labourers right across the empire. It comes from the Hindi word quli, meaning slave.
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RobW wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2020 8:50 amDefinitely used in China too.Petrol Head wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2020 6:44 amPlayboy, can you settle a debate I had with another colonial on New Years:
The term, ‘Coolie’ -
I reckon it’s a British India classification for The Help, who’d fan you on a late April afternoon in Rangoon whilst 47 and 98% on the Humidistat.
He reckons it’s a Chinese labourer in Singapore.
Please confirm. Thank you.
It's a shame that "jam boy'" seems almost undocumented and lost to the mists of time.
He was the fella that was smeared in jam to keep the flies off the masters on their arduous trips into the provinces.
Traditionally they were always allowed to keep and lick the jam from themselves at the end of each day.
Bastards all got rich now.
Jam boys are an urban myth. They were also allegedly used by golfers in the Southern states of the USA, but there has never been any evidence for it.
the idea makes no sense anyway. Why would you need a human being for the purpose. Anything could have been covered in jam for the same effect.
Even Wikipedia room down a jam boy page, dismissing it as a hoax.
Playboy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2020 7:34 am
As a quick side note. The help that fanned you was the punkahwallah. Again of Indian origin. From the Hindu words punkah, which refers to the movement of a birds wings (later to also mean a fan) and the word wallah, which loosely translates as 'man who does'. See also extended usage in such words as 'charwallah' - the man who makes the tea.
(Not actually a punkawallah, that was played by Barbar Batti but then he’s not even Indian. Batti is from Essex. That’s Michael Bates of Clockwork Orange)
Ahh. Before politically correct BS.
pew, pew, pew, pew!
They existed. I have it in the diaries of my ancestors.Dallow Spicer wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2020 2:34 pmRobW wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2020 8:50 amDefinitely used in China too.Petrol Head wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2020 6:44 amPlayboy, can you settle a debate I had with another colonial on New Years:
The term, ‘Coolie’ -
I reckon it’s a British India classification for The Help, who’d fan you on a late April afternoon in Rangoon whilst 47 and 98% on the Humidistat.
He reckons it’s a Chinese labourer in Singapore.
Please confirm. Thank you.
It's a shame that "jam boy'" seems almost undocumented and lost to the mists of time.
He was the fella that was smeared in jam to keep the flies off the masters on their arduous trips into the provinces.
Traditionally they were always allowed to keep and lick the jam from themselves at the end of each day.
Bastards all got rich now.
Jam boys are an urban myth. They were also allegedly used by golfers in the Southern states of the USA, but there has never been any evidence for it.
the idea makes no sense anyway. Why would you need a human being for the purpose. Anything could have been covered in jam for the same effect.
Even Wikipedia room down a jam boy page, dismissing it as a hoax.
Why they existed I'd say was a matter of weird sadism.
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