shellygrrl
Well-Known Member
^ Yep. A 1981 Lancia Beta Coupe.
Puff is a british slang term for someone with homosexual tendencies, or is generally quite effeminate. There's a species of African adder called the Puff Adder, hence the pun. Ponkerwaller was just a joke on Jeremy's behalf, highlighting his ignorance on anything to do with Pokemon. And for your third reference, what Jeremy was trying to say was that if the Tata Nano was any more basic, it would have to be a horse (or mule) and cart.
Different problem for "effrontery". Since I had no clue how to spell it, nothing was able to tell me what that means. I thought it had to do with 'to affront', but obviously, it doesn't. Neither google, nor my online dictionary (which is excellent otherwise) did suggest effrontery as an alternative..
Puff is a british slang term for someone with homosexual tendencies, or is generally quite effeminate. There's a species of African adder called the Puff Adder, hence the pun. Ponkerwaller was just a joke on Jeremy's behalf, highlighting his ignorance on anything to do with Pokemon. And for your third reference, what Jeremy was trying to say was that if the Tata Nano was any more basic, it would have to be a horse (or mule) and cart.
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Ponkerwaller was just a joke on Jeremy's behalf, highlighting his ignorance on anything to do with Pokemon.
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Also: What's a Ponkerwaller?
Jeremy used that word to describe the yellow Tata Nano (after Hammond compared the car to a Pikachu). Then Jezza proceed with saying something about: if it (the Tata) was to go anymore "basic" than the deluxe version show on the screen, a mule would have to be placed in front of the car.
Oxford Concise Dictionary of English Etymology said:Punkah ? Portable Fan (17th century) - of Hindi origin. (India)
Wallah ? man or fellow (19th century ) - word of native Indian language, adopted by European residents
Or that other ep when they watched some F1 race except for Hammond 'who preferred selling fish' or whatever it was.
And talking of Hammond - what's with the teeth whitening and tanning salon quips
Hi,
while you're at it, someone might explain the humorous references to hammond doing openings, which I'm guessing he does rather often. References like in 404, the news segment, "The Sudbury Warp Gate" - 'If you do that, I'll open it for you.' Or that other ep when they watched some F1 race except for Hammond 'who preferred selling fish' or whatever it was.
And talking of Hammond - what's with the teeth whitening and tanning salon quips?
Not 100% sure on this as I can't remember the ep all that well, but I think it was something to do with Hammonds advert for Morrisons (brit supermarket) because a lot of the advert was him stood by the fish counter, feel free to correct me if i'm wrong though!
I think that's just general pisstaking really! Not sure if there's anything behind it
Still re-watching 404 and someone should explain the 'Dennis Waterman Appreciation Society' and what has become of Martin Brundle nowadays (Cool Wall section).
for them, including 1 which showed him working on the fresh fish counter
No offence, but most of these you could have found yourself with a little bit of google/wikipedia.
And talking of Hammond - what's with the teeth whitening and tanning salon quips?
And talking of Hammond - what's with the teeth whitening and tanning salon quips?
Mostly it's just his metrosexual appearance, but the teeth whitening thing was because Hammond at the time had quit smoking and claimed his teeth had become whiter as a result. So of course Jeremy and James had to take the piss.