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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Billy Rygar on December 06, 2010, 02:00:13 PM

Title: Canadians, Account for Yourselves
Post by: Billy Rygar on December 06, 2010, 02:00:13 PM: Last night I went out with a couple of Canadian filmmakers and one of them was overheard saying "Everything Is Tickety-Boo." What the fuck is this? Is this a real phrase that people say in mixed company?
Title: Re: Canadians, Account for Yourselves
Post by: Mupepe on December 06, 2010, 02:02:23 PM: :lol

I want to hear a canadian say it in real life. Just like I love hearing brits say "oy"
Title: Re: Canadians, Account for Yourselves
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 06, 2010, 02:21:36 PM: Not in Saskatchewan they don't.
Title: Re: Canadians, Account for Yourselves
Post by: Fresh Prince on December 06, 2010, 02:25:46 PM: Quote
tickety-boo 158 up, 14 down

buy tickety-boo mugs, tshirts and magnets
1. Going smoothly, doing all right. Copacetic.

2. Proceeding quickly.

This expression may have originated in Scotland, where it's the title of a popular children's song. A song called "Everything Is Tickety-Boo" was recorded by Danny Kaye as part of the film "Merry Andrew".

This expression is heard more often in Canada nowadays. May have originated in the British military. Possibly related to the Hindi expression "tickee babu", meaning "everything's alright, sir". Some people spell it "diggity boo" or "tiggity boo".
Everything is tickety-boo, tickety-boo, tickety-boo..
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tickety-boo

smh
Title: Re: Canadians, Account for Yourselves
Post by: Shaka Khan on December 06, 2010, 03:00:29 PM: "Tickety-Boo"... wow.

Sounds like something only Mrs. Featherbottom would say.

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[youtube=560,345]kKXkfLhn6pA[/youtube]
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Title: Re: Canadians, Account for Yourselves
Post by: demi on December 06, 2010, 03:46:45 PM: Add this to your robot friend arvie.
Title: Re: Canadians, Account for Yourselves
Post by: pilonv1 on December 06, 2010, 05:55:16 PM: Quote from: Mupepe on December 06, 2010, 02:02:23 PM
:lol

I want to hear a canadian say it in real life. Just like I love hearing brits say "oy"

That's "OI"
Title: Re: Canadians, Account for Yourselves
Post by: Mupepe on December 06, 2010, 06:28:20 PM: oi, now i know
Title: Re: Canadians, Account for Yourselves
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on December 06, 2010, 06:38:17 PM: PLOT TWIST

My Canadian friend says no Canadian has said "tickety-boo" since the 1950s...

...unless they are from the Maritimes. Are your friends from the Maritimes?
Title: Re: Canadians, Account for Yourselves
Post by: chronovore on December 07, 2010, 01:16:09 AM: Of course they're covering up. "Tickety-boo" is the verbal equivalent of a groin punch. :punch
Title: Re: Canadians, Account for Yourselves
Post by: chronovore on December 07, 2010, 06:44:43 AM: Hadta google "newfie"...
Title: Re: Canadians, Account for Yourselves
Post by: Solo on December 07, 2010, 07:03:43 AM: I have lived in Canada all 27 years of my life and Ive never heard anyone utter those words.
Title: Re: Canadians, Account for Yourselves
Post by: Shaka Khan on December 07, 2010, 07:13:42 AM: I bet those 27 years went by tickety-boo in such a fine country.
Title: Re: Canadians, Account for Yourselves
Post by: EmCeeGrammar on December 07, 2010, 07:46:35 AM: I sometimes say hunky dory ironically. Probably the same deal, someone trying to be funny.
Title: Re: Canadians, Account for Yourselves
Post by: muckhole on December 07, 2010, 09:31:54 AM: [youtube=560,345]kzVCahrtaWI[/youtube]

Please note that I've never said "tickety-boo". But after seeing that video, "snicketty-poo" is definitely entering the vernacular.

EDIT: Now it's stuck in my head. :-\
Title: Re: Canadians, Account for Yourselves
Post by: Stoney Mason on December 07, 2010, 10:35:56 AM: [youtube=560,345]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RHVoFpncgA[/youtube]
Title: Re: Canadians, Account for Yourselves
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 07, 2010, 11:14:51 AM: I think someday I will make a Turing complete language that only uses the words "Tickety-boo", "Tickety", "boo", and the semicolon.