A guide to speaking Beebish

As a project for the weekend I’ve decided to make a start on the World’s first Beebish/English dictionary. My hope is it will eventually prove an invaluable tool for the audience to better understand the BBC’s news reports – or that I might be able to flog it to the Beeb as a training resource for bucket loads of cash.

I have a few entries below already, but I’d be grateful for suggestions of others* that should be included.

* with links if possible.

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162 Responses to A guide to speaking Beebish

  1. Nearly Oxfordian says:

    Am I the only person here sexually aroused by balancing conkers on the end of my John Thomas?

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  2. Original Robin says:

    Let`s not forget the letters they send if you dont have a TV.
    All on the envelopes or seen through an envelope window;

    TV LICENSING = The most important correspondence you get.

    Reminder = we want your money

    ACTION REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY = Pay up. No choice should be about it.

    WARNING:IT IS A CRIMINAL OFFENCE TO USE A TV RECIEVER WITHOUT A VALID LICENCE = Postman, this fellow is a TV tax dodger.

    YOU ARE HEREBY GIVEN NOTICE = We are trying to frighten you.

    THIS PROPERTY IS UNDER INVESTIGATION = We would love to be KGB agents and harrass you but this is the nearest we get.

    Your address has been identified = No licence on our database.

    Please be aware… = We`re telling you now.

    Please be advised..= We told you before.

    “we have applied for internal authorisation for our Enforcement Officers to visit your property ” = We are asking ourselves for permission from ourselves for one of our selves to come round.

    Repeat of all of the above == We are desperate.

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  3. Nearly Oxfordian says:

    I’ve also found that TVLA have the power to not only FORCE their way into your homes, but to FORCE you to perform fellatio on a stray animal of their choice.

    Ridiculous. Especially as the stray animal at the time happened to be Vinnie Jones.

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  4. betyangelo says:

    I think Mr. Brand has arrived for gossip about himself – typical egoist – and is hijacking identities.

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  5. HSLD says:

    “Impotence” – a TVLA salesman confronted by someone who knows their rights.

    “Leaving with his tail between his legs” – a TVLA salesman trudging back to his car in the pouring rain after being denied entry to your home.

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  6. Catastrophe says:

    How did you all know i was Russell Brand?! Damn, totally busted!

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  7. John Gentle says:

    Heterosexual =

    Pervert probably prone to homophobia

    Islamophobic =

    Someone not pleased to see large numbers of nijabs in local shopping centre

    Honour killing =

    muslim parental domestic discipline of daughter

    Honourable killings =

    Licence payers holding BBC executives to account

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  8. dross says:

    Cuba, tropical paradise = Cuba, socialist shithole that most can’t wait to get out of even if it means risking their lives crossing to the US on a homemade raft

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  9. Hugh Oxford says:

    Have Your Say: Only If We Agree (see also Comment is Free).

    Balance: Multiculturalism.
    Balance: Distortion of reality.

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  10. Hugh Oxford says:

    Traditional: Barbaric (Yemen, which sells girls to men, is “traditional”)

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  11. Mehran says:

    This is really good.

    I’d like to compile all this into a book form, flog it and use the proceeds to start a campaign for dismantling of the BBC.

    Who’s with me?!

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  12. Ms. Know says:

    They forgot to include this, left-wing illuminati, destined to take the world to an all time deficit.

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