"What does "total horlix" mean?" Topic

Someone used it on another forum and it seems like a localized Brit coloquialism. In the context used, it seems to mean the same thing as FUBAR, SNAFU and "total cockup". Is that close?

Horlicks is a well-known brand of malted milk powder. The story behind its substitution for a less civil word can be found here (and elsewhere in the pipelets of the Interwebs):

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I cannot account for the misspelling, except to suggest that it must be one of the younger generation.

Allen

My high school competed against William Horlick High School in sports.

We had other terms for them…

In the UK it is usually marketed as a bedtime drink. In Asia is marketed as an energy drink. Perhaps the Brits need the energy at bedtime.

There is that….

When do you need energy more?

Nice link aecurtis.

Maybe the slang phrase originated because the brink tastes like b**ll**ks!

the drink tastes wonderful – takes me back to my childhood – a cup made with warm milk just before going off to bed…ah, bliss

Cool! I was right then, on the vernacular usage.

"Horlick(s)", Hmmm, that puts an image in mind….

It is substituted for the Anglo-Saxon word for sphere or ball, as noted by Cerdic (Hard 'C' in your name I trust).

A professor of Anglo-Saxon once avoided a contempt of court charge for the use of said word, because he showed it was a real word.

I do feel the US has very limited and unimaginative swearing, and seems to revolve around the F word. Finding you have made a mistake really requires the explosiveness of the 'Horlicks'.

Likewise the use of the 'W' word, implying the target lacks female romantic company has only really crossed the Atlantic in the past few years- even a few years ago the average 'Septic' on the web had no idea. In the 80's my brother and I (who were teens at the time) literally "ROFL" (as the cool kids would say), and I do mean literally, not the debased modern version, when Mindy introduced Mork to the shop's landlord, Mr .

It is a brilliantly constructed word to shout, those 'Sarf' of the River managing to put two epiglottal stops into it. Football commentators and their sound engineers often have to disguise the fact the effects mics are picking up the glorious sound that 40,000 fans are chanting in perfect unison that the match official is overly familiar with the practice of onanism.

Interesting- Bleeped out. As it appeared to be perfectly normal in the context of the show I wonder if many US citizens were called that. I wonder what they all did after the WWW became widespread- change their names?

now I want to know what the word was, sigh

I hate bleeps

Yep, that must be it: W.a.n.k.e.r.

Bill is just showing consideration for his Brit friends: the "W" word doesn't mean anything over here….

I have a cousin-in-law who changed his family name from Fag to Price (another family name in the genealogy) back in the late 80's: for obvious reasons, his kids were constantly getting razzed in school….

It's a perfectly respectable Dutch/German name. Pronounced 'van-kerr' of course.

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One of the directors of our German owned company is a . I'm naturally not going to provide a link to his name, if he reads this he may think I'm taking the

*sigh* This site's Victorian prudishness gets a tad wearing when it s up perfectly good links. If you're at all bothered about checking insert the naughty word.

There is a word meaning to laugh, (the US uses snicker)which gets S'bleep' because of the racial offensiveness filter.

Oddly, despite the filter looking for words in words, the residents of Scunthorpe are OK.

Last Hussar, the Bleep-o-matic used to bleep out the naughty word in Scunthorpe, and this was pointed out to Bill. He tinkered with the inner workings of the machine to stop it happening. This was years ago, when the swear filter was still quite new.

Last Hussar – yes, a 'hard' c in true Old English style.

The 'w' word is indeed great to shout. Funnily enough I live south of the river and spend a lot of the time yelling it at fellow motorists…….

I live south of the river

LOOK OUT- Cerdic's got a purdey! I trust you wear the correct uniform for those on the wrong side of the River of stonewash jeans, mullet, and white Escort Mk III with pointless spoiler?

Just out of interest, has Scunthorpe ever been mentioned outside of the bleep-o-matic? And does it work on other offensive words, like Noel monds, Chris yles, and Natasha Kapli ?

What river are you thinking of????

And what is wrong with Natasha Kaplinski?

When I used the pharse 'Sarf' I assumed your response like wise meant the Thames.

And what is wrong with Natasha Kaplinski?

Nothing that can not be summed up in the words 'talentless' and 'overpaid'

She has wonderful cheekbones. If your a cheekbones man…

a cup made with warm milk just before going off to bed…ah, TOOTH DECAY

laugh = bray ???

Guess not.

At first, I thought this was one of the mystical mumbo-jumbo items from Harry Potter, but then I remembered it was a "horcrux" or something like that.

Peg Bundy ("Married with Children", 1990s US TV) was freuqntly mentioned as having grown up in County, Wisconsin. They just slipped that by the typical Yank viewer but I thought it was funny (having spent much time in Blighty). "The Simpsons" have for years been making sly puns with Willie the Groundskeeper's first name. Nothing like a common language to keep us on our toes, eh?

I wonder if people with the last name of Gay have been changing their names, too? Or Lay? I grew up with kids with those last names and they hadn't yet become quite the targets for mockery they would be today.

Anyone got a fag, a rubber, an eraser, a French letter?