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mousy brown · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:10 pm Post subject: old west slang ---

For getting in the spirit of things for the wild west games and creating that
wild west atmosphere around the table...

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~poindexterfamily/OldWestSlang.html

"That four-flusher, shave tail from the old States thought he'self real
Curly wolf when he bilked the big bug over at the Saloon by shoving
the queer. Now he's had his plow cleaned and he's a goner in the bone
orchard, " " And him only between the hay and the grass too !"

" Well if that dont take the rug off the bush!" " Cigar ? "

"Why thank you, but I'll quirley if'n ya twig!" " Cup o' arbuckle's?"

etc etc etc !!
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thehermit · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:45 pm Post subject:

nice one mousy!
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dm · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 4:22 pm Post subject:

surprised to see how many are still in use and have the same meaning

bugsda · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 4:25 pm Post subject:

Sorry old chap, can't understand your banter!

GeneralissimoJ · Veteran Supporting Member Joined: 12 Oct 2006 Posts: 63

Most of the old west slang around our gaming table sounds more like "DEADWOOD".
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mousy brown · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:34 pm Post subject:

Ray Earle · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:35 pm Post subject:

Hmmm....

'Well, we'll see about that. I'm Sheriff John Langston. As you may have guessed, I am not from these parts.'
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mousy brown · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:50 pm Post subject:

Yep me too ! English Bob - unforgiven !

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evilcartoonist · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:24 pm Post subject:

I use a lot of those words, as I reckon' most anyone from my parts still would. And I can remember a lot of the more ambiguous phrases being used by my grandparents and great-grandparents (all from rural Nebraska, which never did quite modernize itself )

My great-grandmother told me not to "kick up a row" when I was a little tempermental child, and my great-grandfather sometimes didn't give a "continental goddamn 'bout notin'!"

Maybe some of us Yankee folk should tape record our accents for you Brits so you can get an idea of how we sound ... or you could just watch a lot of Larry the Cable Guy (My speech isn't half as bad as his)

Time for me to skedaddle! (Yep- I actually do use that one on occasion )
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bugsda · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:24 pm Post subject:

dm · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:26 pm Post subject:

thats because he is writing in Shropshire'ase

combatpainter · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:37 pm Post subject:

Watch "Tombstone" with Val Kilmer and Kurt Russell. You will get stuff like, "Skin that smoke wagon and see what happens."

mousy brown · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:48 pm Post subject:

BLONDIE · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 10:48 am Post subject:

A normal thing to ask in Shropshire mousy.

bugsda · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:19 am Post subject:

Most cockneys speak Urdu nowadays Mousey.

Never heard any of those rhymes, and my great-grandaddy was a one armed costermonger from Whitechapple!