Thanks for the translation steve; I had guessed the second one as to do with a womans clothing,:-) the story makes more sense now.
Some times I amaze my self with my own ignorance.
"Gland" as a word is used in both countries, I have bought many of them when I started fixing up this old house 5 years ago (has it really been 5 years-time fly's when your having fun-ha---try working on a house built before they had things like levels and squares) but when I asked for them at the local---lets make the amateur feel stupid---builders supply, I would just ask for "that hollow bolt that comes out of the side of electrical boxes" being real techcnukel to empress the local "guru god" (some ex-carpenter that got drummed out of the local building trade).
OF course the second thing listed in a search for a slang dictionary brought up a comprehensive site on slang:
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/b.htm
And ballocks! are there a lot of slang words in the British idiom, more then in the American jargon. (see:you give a monkey a wrench and he'ill start swinging it)
As far as us "yankees" go I was raised in northern minniSNOWta 80 miles from the Canadian border and we had ever nationality except maybe Africana and Asian's and we all got along fine. I had one uncle that was french Canadian, one that was a finlander
my dad would call them "ya dumb kanuk" and that crazy finlander" and they came back with "stupid bogtrotter" and nobody got mad; altho after finding out what bogtrotter means maybe he should have.
I didn't know I was a yankee till I meet a southerner in the army and he did say it like it was derogatorial and I didn't understand why ---blame our school; we were taught more about Europe then our own country.
Just to keep this on topic we used to fix leaky case gaskets on the off-road bikes by taking a thin grinding tool and ground a 1/8" channel along the gasket line, turned the bike upside down so the oil would drain away from the wound and filled it with j-b weld, hit it with paint and they were good to go. Fixed a lot of busted cases on bikes kids would take the skid plate off to go faster the same way;some with holes the size of your fist, cut chunks of aluminum off dead cases, formed them to fit and used a WHOLE LOT of j-b weld; seen one of my old customers the other day and the bike is still running 15 yrs later---Love that J-b WELD!
I know I am kinda long winded here but the rainy season is here, parts and professional work on the Dream is taking for ever and I am BORED to tears, so much that I bought a truck load of ct90's that has the potential to become two running bikes (my ever understanding wife is shaking her head she thought I had givin' up my addiction when we moved----I had two, double-stall garages packed to the rafters with bikes and parts, it took six months to sell off the best of it, the rest I gave away(sob) ) but:
That is another story.
p.s. Steve, I just want to say I always look forward to your post--very informative and nice to have a different take on things from your view across the pond---same goes for
jensen---- I can't believe what you have done to your CB; we treat them like antique's to be polished and stored away over here for the most part; you treat it like a living breathing machine with a future-------98mph on a Dream! you should come over to Bonneville.
Clarence
Right Crankshaft Seal
Clarence, good, if strange, to see the correct spelling; I always spell it 'bollox' or 'bollocks', as it sounds more like you mean it when spelt those ways! Probably my favourite word in the English language...... You guys call it a monkey-wrench; Brits once called it a 'shifting-spanner', but more often known now as an 'adjustable spanner' or just 'an adjustable'. The Spaniards' call it a 'llave inglésa' (yavvay inglAYsa -- English key!) Since we're in the right topic and discussing oil leaks, I stated some months back that I'd expand upon why my first CB77, that I had in '71, always had an oily rear tyre:
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