The top balcony of The Globe in Shakepeare's day was used for prostitutes and their customers. It was common for them to conduct business during a play. They were also referred to as 'swans' because they would summon customers by flapping white handkerchiefs from the balcony when they were available...
:)

The number of hooves lifted into the air on equestrian statues does not indicate how the rider died.

http://www.snopes.com/military/statue.htm

I have heard tour guides stating the converse is true on more than one occasion. Just goes to show, I can't believe everything I hear.


I stand corrected on my earlier entry.

Homoerotic undertones throughout 'Red River' were put there on purpose by the film's openly gay screenwriter and Montgomery Clift. All of this, including a scene where Clift and John Ireland compare pistols, went right over John Wayne's head. In fact, if you watch the film, there seems to be a love triangle between Wayne, Clift and Ireland.
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Source: 'The Celluloid Closet'

This made me think of the end of Fantasmic. :)

Some very British vocabulary differences:

Aubergine = Eggplant (but, we now use it for something eggplant colored)
Plimsolls = Sneakers
Chips = French Fries
Crisps = Chips
Fizzy drink = Soda (and Fuzzy water is Perrier in LisaSpeak)
Vegetable Marrow = Squash
Plaster = Band Aid
Green Fingers = Green Thumb
Chemist = Drug store
Trolly = Shoppping Carat
Lift = Elevator
Boot = Trunk
Bonnet = Hood
Identification Parade = Police Lineup


And, in London, you can knock up someone in their room and not have to pay child support. It just means to call for someone. ;)

Think of the revenue for a post-Fantasmic Mark Twain shindig at the back area of the Rivers of America! It includes a whole different kind of dessert, I tell you what...
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Along those same lines, in New Zealand peppers are called capsicum and venison is sometimes called cervena from the Latin Cervidae, meaning deer, and vension, which originally meant "hunting."

You forgot that in Birtain, Napkin = sanitary napkin, while serviette = something to wipe one's hands with.

And Nappy = Diaper

There are a TON more. Funny, but it's the same language!

And Pissed = Drunk
Not 'angry' like here in the US.