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floridadreamvilla.co.uk

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Posted - 31 Dec 2003 : 02:52:18

We were at IHOP the other day and got stumped when the waitress asked one of our children about a "boo boo". Turns out this means a cut where you need a plaster (band-aid).

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ctgirlscout

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Posted - 31 Dec 2003 : 04:07:23

LOL John--did you have to ask the waitress what she was talking about?

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floridadreamvilla.co.uk

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Posted - 31 Dec 2003 : 13:50:44

Yes

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wilfy

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Posted - 31 Dec 2003 : 15:42:09

boo-boo huh? i'm stumped on how this phrase could mean anything to do with a cut.
bob-boo to me means, i've screwed up (yet) again...

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Amirah

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Posted - 31 Dec 2003 : 16:09:34

Boo Boo means that a mess occured...you're right Wilfy. I make boo boos all the time lol. Like I knocked over a glass of soda the other day. What a boo boo!

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kaysvacationvilla

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Posted - 31 Dec 2003 : 19:51:06

I can't believe you did not know what a boo boo was.

Even when I got hurt as a child it was always referred to as a boo boo.

I have to admit that at times there are words used in this forum that I have know idea what they mean. It is amazing that we speak the same language, but have so many different meanings for words.

Kay

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blott

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Posted - 31 Dec 2003 : 20:05:00

Ah, but that's just it Kay, we don't speak the same language at all, it just sounds like we do on the surface! That's what makes life so interesting...

As a Brit, I get lulled into a false sense of security when I'm in US until someone I'm speaking to says "excuse me"? It's only then that I realise I've said something British that I need to 'translate' into American!

As an example, we stayed the night in a Chicago hotel (our plane was delayed) on the way to Florida a few weeks ago. On the shuttle back to the airport, the driver was quite chatty and asked where we were going and why. So I replied (thinking I'd say it the American way for his benefit) that we have a vacation home in Florida and he instantly said "oh, you mean you have a holiday villa". We'd both been ultra polite and used each other's phrases for the same thing!