Thought so

[tree_and_leaf]

And at least we were saved the slurping and Hungarian translations.

But where do they go from here?

Comments

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I should have got the Brian / Siobhain reference, but don't know the Private Eye one.

[tree_and_leaf]

I had to get my mother to explain the Private Eye thing, as it was quite a while ago, and I don't remember all the details... Wikipedia offers the following, from the Private Eye entry: The phrase "Ugandan relations" (or "Ugandan discussions" or "Ugandan affairs"), for example, is a Private Eye euphemism for illicit sex, usually while carrying out a supposedly official duty. According to Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable (2000) the term is a reference to an incident at a party hosted by the journalist Neal Ascherson and his first wife, at which fellow journalist Mary Kenny had a "meaningful confrontation" with a former cabinet minister in the government of Milton Obote, later explaining that they were "upstairs discussing Uganda". The poet James Fenton apparently coined the term. In 1996, 'Getting Back to Basics' was suggested as a replacement euphemism after the disastrous policy of the same name adopted by John Major's government

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Local usage is "listening to Nelly Furtado". Again, no-one would actually do it.

[tree_and_leaf]

??? Explanation, please - or isn't there one, apart from the inherent unlikeliness?