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language question "by the by"

Posted: Sat 21 Feb 2009, 12:05 am
by frenchpsbfan
can somebody explain what that means?

Re: language question "by the by"

Posted: Sat 21 Feb 2009, 12:06 am
by Drico One
It's an aside. It's a term used when somebody introduces an incidental topic to the conversation.

Drico.

Re: language question "by the by"

Posted: Sat 21 Feb 2009, 12:07 am
by Drico One
By the by, this is off-topic so I'm moving it to the OT forum.

Drico.

Re: language question "by the by"

Posted: Sat 21 Feb 2009, 12:07 am
by 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.)

Re: language question "by the by"

Posted: Sat 21 Feb 2009, 12:09 am
by frenchpsbfan
off topic? that's part of PSB lyrics.. anyway thanks for the clear and useful explanation.

Re: language question "by the by"

Posted: Sat 21 Feb 2009, 12:10 am
by frenchpsbfan
thank you Fugitive

Re: language question "by the by"

Posted: Sat 21 Feb 2009, 12:28 pm
by Radiophonic
By the bye = By The Way = Incidentally = Good name for a PSB album.

Re: language question "by the by"

Posted: Sat 21 Feb 2009, 1:53 pm
by Patrick Bateman
It's a new cricket-themed game show presented by Dale Winton.

Re: language question "by the by"

Posted: Sun 22 Feb 2009, 6:33 pm
by Hmmm
Patrick Bateman wrote:It's a new cricket-themed game show presented by Dale Winton.
I thought it would be "Silly Mid-On".

Re: language question "by the by"

Posted: Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:25 pm
by 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.

Re: language question "by the by"

Posted: Mon 23 Feb 2009, 2:39 pm
by Danny C
Patrick Bateman wrote: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.

Re: language question "by the by"

Posted: Mon 23 Feb 2009, 2:56 pm
by Fugitive1979
Danny C wrote:
Patrick Bateman wrote: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.
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