I need some assistance from our #British fediversian cousins.
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I need some assistance from our #British fediversian cousins. Found this joke in a list of top 50 funniest jokes from the #Telegraph published in 2010.
20. I met a Dutch girl with inflatable shoes last week, phoned her up to arrange a date but unfortunately she'd popped her clogs.
What does “popped her clogs” mean? TIA
Disclosure: the only one I laughed at was
49. A seal walks into a club...Not proud of that, but it is what it is.
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I need some assistance from our #British fediversian cousins. Found this joke in a list of top 50 funniest jokes from the #Telegraph published in 2010.
20. I met a Dutch girl with inflatable shoes last week, phoned her up to arrange a date but unfortunately she'd popped her clogs.
What does “popped her clogs” mean? TIA
Disclosure: the only one I laughed at was
49. A seal walks into a club...Not proud of that, but it is what it is.
@qurlyjoe I got this from a quick search. The joke would be in the double meaning of pop (a balloon or to pop off)
https://wordhistories.net/2020/12/29/pop-clogs/ -
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I need some assistance from our #British fediversian cousins. Found this joke in a list of top 50 funniest jokes from the #Telegraph published in 2010.
20. I met a Dutch girl with inflatable shoes last week, phoned her up to arrange a date but unfortunately she'd popped her clogs.
What does “popped her clogs” mean? TIA
Disclosure: the only one I laughed at was
49. A seal walks into a club...Not proud of that, but it is what it is.
not from the UK but i read a lot of UK books, & "popped her clogs" means she died
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I need some assistance from our #British fediversian cousins. Found this joke in a list of top 50 funniest jokes from the #Telegraph published in 2010.
20. I met a Dutch girl with inflatable shoes last week, phoned her up to arrange a date but unfortunately she'd popped her clogs.
What does “popped her clogs” mean? TIA
Disclosure: the only one I laughed at was
49. A seal walks into a club...Not proud of that, but it is what it is.
Hahaha! Thanks for sharing.
Dr. Google says the British slang term "pop your clogs" means "to die." Similar expression to "kick the bucket."
Not relevantly to your example, apparently it's also been expanded to mean "to rest or sleep deeply."
For further expressions along this line, see Monty Python's 1969 "Dead Parrot Sketch" ...
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not from the UK but i read a lot of UK books, & "popped her clogs" means she died
@peachfront
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@qurlyjoe I got this from a quick search. The joke would be in the double meaning of pop (a balloon or to pop off)
https://wordhistories.net/2020/12/29/pop-clogs/@samloonie
Would not have guessed that. Although I can see a relation to our “kicked the bucket.” -
@peachfront
Never would’ve guessed that.i feel like i've only seen it used in contexts where the speaker is not exactly sad that the person has died...
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I need some assistance from our #British fediversian cousins. Found this joke in a list of top 50 funniest jokes from the #Telegraph published in 2010.
20. I met a Dutch girl with inflatable shoes last week, phoned her up to arrange a date but unfortunately she'd popped her clogs.
What does “popped her clogs” mean? TIA
Disclosure: the only one I laughed at was
49. A seal walks into a club...Not proud of that, but it is what it is.
@qurlyjoe "popped his/her clogs" means "died". Don't ask me why!
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@samloonie
Would not have guessed that. Although I can see a relation to our “kicked the bucket.”@qurlyjoe I never figured out how kicking a bucket had any relation, either. We sure do have a lot of ways to not say something.
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