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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
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Hello,

What do these words mean? It sounds cool but it's weird. Could someone paraphrase this text ?? It's too much strange vocabulary. It's an abstract from http://www.americanaccent.com/index.html :

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'I was rooting willy-nilly through buncha stuff, looking every which way for the dinky little whatchamacallit to fix the golden thingamajig, but good old’ whatsisname had put it in the hooziwhatsit, as usual! Boy oh boy, what a load of hooey. Always the same old rigamarole with that thingyamamie bozo. He’s such a pipsqueak! If I found it, ka-ching, I’d be rich, which would be just jim dandy! I'd be totally discombobulated. You-know-who had done you-know-what with the goofy little gadget again, so whaddayaknow ... there was something-or-other wrong with it. What a snafu! I had a heck of a time getting ahold of whatsername to come over and take care of it with her special little doohickey that she keeps there in the thingamabob. For the gazillionth time, the flighty little flibbertigibbet said alrighty, she wouldn't shillyshally, she’d schlep over with her widget fixer and whatnot to do a bodacious whizbang job on the whole shebang. That's right, the whole kit 'n caboodle, no ifs, and, or buts about it ... no malarkey. Okey dokey, but she was a skosh busy right then, yadda, yada, yada. Yessirreebob, we usually have gadgets galore, but what with the this-and-that, and all the hoopla, it’s all topsy turvy today, ’cuz that humungous nincompoop is still in the whatsit acting like everything's just hunky-dory. That's just a bunch gobbledeegook. Pure gibberish. He's such an old rapscallion. Jeremy Christmas, the shenanigans of that old fogey. Yackety schmackety, blah, blah, blah! Shucks, I wanted to find it on my own, and not be penalized for it—I’m just so darned tired of gimme’s and gotcha’s by a lotta has-been nosybones out hobnobbing with hoity-toity wannabes. The real nitty-gritty is that young and old, they’re just a buncha happy-go-lucky whippersnappers and cantankerous old fuddyduddies who don’t know diddly. I poked among the gewgaws, tchotchkes, gimcracks, and knickknacks, there in the doodad, but I found zilch, zero, zippo, nil, nada and null. So-and-so told me such-and-such about the deeleebob, but I just don’t know where that little gizmo is. Sheesh! It’s a big whoopdedoo when you can’t even remember where the gosh diddly darned whaddya call it is!'

Thanx in advance!

  

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I'll do the first little bit for you... 'I was rooting *****-nilly through a buncha stuff, (I was roughly searching through a lot of stuff) looking every whichway for the dinky little whatchamacallit to fix the goldong thingamajig, (looking everywhere for the little thing to fix the **** thing) but good ol’ whatsizname had put it in the hooziwhatsit, as usual! (but 'he' has put it somewhere else, as usual) Boy oh boy, what a load of hooey.

  • I'll do the first little bit for you...
  • 'I was rooting *****-nilly through a buncha stuff, (I was roughly searching through a lot of stuff) looking every whichway for the dinky little whatchamacallit to fix the goldong thingamajig, (looking everywhere for the little thing to fix the **** thing) but good ol’ whatsizname had put it in the hooziwhatsit, as usual!
  • (but 'he' has put it somewhere else, as usual) Boy oh boy, what a load of hooey.
  • (Oh boy!
  • ).
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I'll do the first little bit for you...

'I was rooting *****-nilly through a buncha stuff, (I was roughly searching through a lot of stuff) looking every whichway for the dinky little whatchamacallit to fix the goldong thingamajig, (looking everywhere for the little thing to fix the **** thing) but good ol’ whatsizname had put it in the hooziwhatsit, as usual! (but 'he' has put it somewhe
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Thank you very much Nona...can someone help too ?? Emotion: smile
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Hi,

Always the same old rigamarole with that thingyamamie bozo. He’s such a pipsqueak! If I found it, ka-ching, I’d be rich, which would be just jim dandy! I'd be totally discombobulated. You-know-who had done you-know-what with the goofy little gadget again, so whaddyaknow ... there was something-or-other wrong with it. What a snafu!

(My translation
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Thank you Clive . Anyone else ?? Emotion: smile
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I had a heck of a time getting ahold of whatsername to come over and take care of it with her special little doohickey that she keeps there in the thingamabob. I had a hard time finding her (can't remember name) to come over and take care of it with her special little thing/tool that she keeps there in that place (can't remember where).

For the gazillionth ti
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Thank you Danyoo . Anyone else ?? Emotion: smile
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Okee dokey, (OK) but she was a skosh busy right then (but she was ? busy talking?), yada, yada, yada. (talking noises) Yessirreebob, (Yes indeed!)we usually have gadgets galore, but what with the this-and-that, and all the hooplah, (everything that's been going

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