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Forget names, faces? Embarrassed by your poor command of English? Have you encountered a mysterious and possibly very rude phrase, but you're afraid to ask what it meant? This is the place for you. Leave such face pyjamas here, and let our panel of resident experts laugh at them.
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It's difficult to tell the context from your question, but if the ladies seemed to be the kind of elderly ladies who enjoy their food, then they were probably referring to savoury filled pastry snacks. Pimlico pasties, in particular, are characterised by a generous admixture of horsemeat (Pimlico being a racecourse in Maryland, USA). On the other hand, if the ladies still looked in fine fettle, slim and a little cheeky, they may have been referring to that variation on the glittery stick-on pastie used by strip artistes as a rather vestigial modesty aid - a tip of the hat, if you like, to covering at least one goose pimple - the Pimlico Pastie, made entirely of cellophane.

Stiff Gallop?

I think you misspelt it. A Stiff Gallup is a election/poll/whatever in which all of the choices are equal given the margin of error. So named because it was said that deadlocked votes were the only means of excitement for Mr Gallup.

Tuna Harbour
The semi-mythical Tuna Harbour is a massive 'C'-shaped formation of rocks, just below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, which is possibly the remnants of a long-extinct underwater volcano. As such, the composition of the rocks are such that marine life thrives there, and hordes of tuna descend upon the place daily to feed. Canny Hawaiian fishermen have sussed this out, and are known to make frequent nocturnal trips to Tuna Harbour, where a little effort guarantees great satisfaction.

I heard that a friend of mine was caught polishing the yucca. Is this serious? (And do I win £10?)

Very serious. Though it sounds like simple hanky panky (if you know what I mean), it is, in fact, much more serious. It concerns the fraudulent filling in of email addresses when requested by websites. This may seem pretty innocuous, until you realise what damage is done by perpetuating false email addresses. Think of the vast quantities of important advertising email that is sent to bogus recipients. Think of the plight of African victims of oppression who have several million dollars to move to the West, and can't find anyone trustworthy to help. Think of all the poor devils who need parts of their bodies enlarged, or access to life-saving drugs like Viagra. And think how email-spoofing behaviour is harming all these wonderful enterprises. The name is derived from the unfortunate Yukka Polish Inc, which pre-dated the internet. They send out their adverts in these handy reply-paid inserts that you just love to find in magazines, but to which some twisted pervert of a DJ on The Light Programme of the BBC took an unaccountable dislike. He recommended that listeners fill in the reply with a bogus name and address and send it back. The resulting postage-paid bill would have sunk the company anyway, had not the weight of accumulated mailbags not caused the company HQ (a portakabin) to slide into Portsmouth docks with the loss of all hands.

Try something less vicious, like the Belfast Sandwich

What did I say that stopped the game dead?
Dunno, Gil - I thought it would be cheeky if I posted again so soon on this one!
They say the best things come to those who wait.
Oh. I thought it might have been the double negative in the last sentence.
A Belfast Sandwich refers to any foodstuff which causes highly explosive flatulence - as eloquently expressed in the well known saying, "Those globe artichokes make me fart like a Belfast Sandwich."

While I'm getting my coat, does anyone know what a Tavistock Kevin is?
Oh yes. Kevin Tavistock ("Kevin t' hav' 'is stock"; shown as Tavistock Kevin) is a fake sender name filled in by automatically propagating spamming worms. If you recall the Weebl & Bob episode "Bob Goes To France Part 3", you'll recall that Kevin was a transvestite French stripper that stole Bob's kidneys. The e-mailed name gives reference to that; the contents of the spam are for smuggled organs.

Anyone ever hear this one, popular in Maryland: Frightened pink terrapin ?
[Frightened pink terrapin ] Nope. That's a new one on me. On the other hand, you may have been fooled by the rather broad Maryland accent. Could you have been hearing, instead, "Heightened sink tarpaulin", a device for preventing one's washbasin from being invaded by what the locals, for tourism reasons, like to call "pine bugs", but are, in fact, massive, rapacious, fast reproducing, genetically modified cockroaches with very loud voices.

What's it mean when someone is referred to as a bit of an Andogynous Andrew.

A little confusion here too. An Androgynous Andrew is someone who is readily available for procreation with either sex (eg "he's very 'Andy"). An Anogynous Andrew, however, is an unlicenced form of wholewheat bread*.

What takes Jones'Finger to arrange when in Kent?
* - Made from incorrectly Spelt flour.
Jones' Finger is a Kentish expression for a dibber, a finger-shaped implement for dibbing holes in the soil to plant seeds in.

Isn't a frightened pink terrapin what happens when a gentleman's *ahem* is unable to *ahem*?

What are Curtain Tongs for?

[when a gentleman's *ahem* is unable to *ahem*] ... due to a hairless scrotum, perhaps?

[Andogynous] sorreee - inadequate poof reading.

deliberate error, turkey

Curtain Tongs (the real thing) are used for hanging, taking down and adjusting glassfibre drapes which are magnificently fireproof, but tend to insert fine fibres of, frankly, glass under the fingernails if dealt with by bare hands even in latex gloves. The term is really now the equivalent of "A Bargepole" in the phrase "I wouldn't touch him/her with Curtain Tongs, even before I heard the rumour", and is even reduced to an adjective in some demotic contexts. As in: "Whaddya think of 'er?" "Curtain Tongs, mate. Curtain Tongs."

Phone Bottle

The ability to charm someone's knickers off over the phone, especially when one is invariably tongue-tied and bashful face to face.

Chimney Poker

Any gambling card game conducted in a smoke-filled room (usually with attendant beer, flatulence and bad language)

Modesty Cupboard

Isn't that where one keeps one's face pyjamas?

Greased Lemon

Buttering you toast - someone used this as a sexual reference...and I'm dying to find out what it means...
I believe it involves a greased lemon.
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