for your listening pleasure...

[boodie]

Watching The Collectors on ABC1 tonight, and this thought popped from mind and escaped out of my lips..

'Telling someone that you collect *trannies these days would result in more than a few eyebrows being raised'



*What us people of a certain age call transistor radios

Comments

[ladyjaguar.livejournal.com]

Interesting. In the Southern United States, a "tranny" is an automobile's transmission.

[shadesfox.livejournal.com]

I collect trannies. I keep them in the basement.

[azhdragon.livejournal.com]

yep, that's a given definition here in oz too ... along with the "transistor radios" and "transsexual" definition.

so much depends on context, doesn't it? :-)

[funnelwebkitten.livejournal.com]

I'm not much of a car person, so that useage bypassed me 8-)

[funnelwebkitten.livejournal.com]

It would very much depend on WHO you were speaking to at the time, as to whether you used the slang term or not *grin*

[funnelwebkitten.livejournal.com]

*grin*

Are they sorted?

[shadesfox.livejournal.com]

Of course! All by size!

[haggis-bagpipes.livejournal.com]

In soviet russia, Tranny collects YOU!

[funnelwebkitten.livejournal.com]

Not by year?

[funnelwebkitten.livejournal.com]

LOL LOL