1: I Draw U 2: Name Stories: People'n'Things
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2: Victor
James Victor As far as his 1st name goes 'James' woz simply named after his grandad. It's his 2nd name, Victor, which has the story... ready? JV's parents were living in Edinburgh and at the beginning of summer the mum's sitting at home 9 months preganent watching a bit of tele when guess wot - her waters break. But she can't get an ambulance coz they're on strike. It's raining so has no luck grabbing a taxi. She ends up taking the 37 bus to the maternity ward! Also on the bus woz her Italian upstairs neighbor on his way to work. During the long ride to distract a mother-to-be as much as pos whose waters have broken and is having severe contractions he tells her crazy tales of his adventures of how he'd walked penniless from Sicily all the way to Edinburgh. Our hero's name? Victor, of course!
1: Xuxu
My friend name Xuxu means: a, wee wee / b, Kiss me, kiss me / c, Go away / d, I dunno / … Read and found out
Xuxu’s from Malaysia but I met her in Lisboa and we immediately became great friends. Xuxu is actually pronounced ‘she she’, which, as every Portuguese speaking kid will tell u means ‘wee wee’ in English – (tho the Portuguese spell it xixi ) So how do i tell my new friend Xuxu ( aka xixi, (she-she), wee-wee) – what her name means in Portuguese. When I finally pluck up the courage I’m amazed when she smiles and says it means the same in Malaysian too. Why would any1 call their kid ‘wee wee’. She tells me it isn’t her real name but she’d actually earned it from her school days and was so proud how she’d tricked the school system that she’s kept it ever since as a nickname. She explained that one day in primary school she had to do a maths test but was terrible at maths. Poor Xuxu- who wouldn't have been called that yet of course, got so nervous she wet herself. Her teacher was understanding and let her go off and change into dry clothes. She had a gr8 idea– from then on whenever she had a test she would drink a bottle of water before and then deliberately wet herself half way thru to get out of finishing the test!
So now u not only know Xuxu’s story u also know the Portuguese and Malaysian word for wee wee :) !!
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2: an Orange
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Wot woz an orange originally called - a yellow? a norage? a horringe? Well, the fruit was originally brought over by the Spanish in about the 16th century and they called in una naranja. The Brits changed naranja to norange. But in those days the people hardly ever saw words written down so only heard it said ( a norange ) and a norange became an orange ( a norange, a norange, an orange) . (I wonder if an apple was ever a napple or a nipple an ipple...!)
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1: Kangaroo
Wot does kangaroo originally mean in aborigine? a, G’day mate / b, The Bouncy One / c, beware of pickpockets / d, I dunno / … Read and found out
Kangaroo
Wot does Kangaroo mean in its original aborigine / native Australian language? If u said i dunno then well done – u’r right!! So here’s how our bouncy friend got its name – altho I’m told no one knows if this is actually true... as far as i’m concerned it IS ... I mean if I like the story that’s good enuf for me so plz don’t tell me otherwise!
In the 18th century, when the Brits first went over to wot we now know as Australia they found other people - aborigines living there. There were a whole lot of animals they’d never seen before including some kind of creature jumping around… When they asked wot it woz called the Aborigines told them ‘kangaroo’. Which, reasonably enuf i think, the Brits took to mean the name of the animal…. But nope, if this story is true ( which i hope it is so it IS!) the Brits must’ve got really confused because when they asked the names of the other animals like koalas, the duck-billed platypus, the dingo etc etc. they would’ve got the same answer for each , kangaroo kangaroo kangaroo. Because apparently the Aborigines didn't give names to their animals. And ‘kangaroo’ is actually simply suppose to mean ‘I dunno’.
So now u kanga…. Or should that be roo? Oh, I kangaroo!
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