Mad to the Max

[Millietant]

Haha, thanks Jeff, I'm about to go to bed and I can't get the thought of a badly dubbed movie out of my head. The guy on the right is who always comes to mind when I think of spaghetti westerns. Hearing action heroes speak in high pitched squeaky voices some seconds before or after their lips move just doesn't work somehow. 



Noel

Lee Van Cleef, Noel...........one of my favourite movie stars from the era. A bona fide cool dude 

[PaulG]

Paul, I hate to tell you this but "toey" in Aussie slang means agitated, anxious, nervous, on edge.......

So Paul, you've now heard the original "Aussie" version, how did you go understanding it?

Noel

I thought it had to do with dromidarys    (as in camels, as in camel toe, or as sometime referred to here in Canada as moose knuckle)

[ribbert]

Paul, I hate to tell you this but "toey" in Aussie slang means agitated, anxious, nervous, on edge.......

So Paul, you've now heard the original "Aussie" version, how did you go understanding it?

Noel

I thought it had to do with dromidarys   (as in camels, as in camel toe, or as sometime referred to here in Canada as moose knuckle)

Haha, an understandable assumption, particularly given our love of abbreviating everything, but in this instance, 'toey' is taken and already has several meanings other than the one you allude to. Most folks know everything that flies, crawls, creeps, swims, slithers, grunts or just plain breathes in Australia is trying to kill you, most don't know we also have the largest herd of wild camels in the world with over a million of them which makes us camel toe central. We may not have moose down here but we understand the reference.

Noel

[ribbert]

Lee Van Cleef, Noel...........one of my favourite movie stars from the era. A bona fide cool dude 

Yep, that's him, the name escaped me. I have this image in my head of him wearing a black outfit, a flat brimmed hat, a cheesy smirk and sucking on a thin cigar delivering some cool line before he shoots someone while all the time his dubbed voice sounding like a 13 year Italian school girl.

I believe Clint Eastwood did a stint after Rawhide making Sergio Leone movies too.

Noel

[Millietant]

Yeah, Clint Eastwood did "A Fistful of Dollars" and then they both starred together in the other two movies that made up the trilogy - "A Few Dollars More" and "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly"

My favourite movie genre - Classic Western's