language question "by the by"

[frenchpsbfan]

can somebody explain what that means?

[Drico One]

It's an aside. It's a term used when somebody introduces an incidental topic to the conversation.

Drico.

[Drico One]

By the by, this is off-topic so I'm moving it to the OT forum.

Drico.

[Fugitive1979]

From Using English

This is used as a way of introducing an incidental topic in a conversation or to say that something is irrelevant. ('By the bye' is also used.)

[frenchpsbfan]

off topic? that's part of PSB lyrics.. anyway thanks for the clear and useful explanation.

[frenchpsbfan]

thank you Fugitive

[Radiophonic]

By the bye = By The Way = Incidentally = Good name for a PSB album.

[Patrick Bateman]

It's a new cricket-themed game show presented by Dale Winton.

[Hmmm]

It's a new cricket-themed game show presented by Dale Winton.

I thought it would be "Silly Mid-On".

[glennjridge]

I thought he was saying "buy the lie'. the second one doesnt like a solid B, unless he's singing it in a lazy kind of way and didnt enunciate it properly.

[Danny C]

It's a new cricket-themed game show presented by Dale Winton.

Nah, if it was presented by the King of Daytime Camp himself, it would be some kind of punning double entendre - "Sticky Wicket" or the like.

"Dale Winton's Sticky Wicket", that's actually awesome. Sounds like the kind of thing Alan Partridge would pitch to the BBC, having failed with Monkey Tennis and Inner-City Sumo.

[Fugitive1979]

It's a new cricket-themed game show presented by Dale Winton.

Nah, if it was presented by the King of Daytime Camp himself, it would be some kind of punning double entendre - "Sticky Wicket" or the like.

"Dale Winton's Sticky Wicket", that's actually awesome. Sounds like the kind of thing Alan Partridge would pitch to the BBC, having failed with Monkey Tennis and Inner-City Sumo.