Australian-Americanisms:
My old man won't let me call him my old man because he says that would mean he's my dad...and he calls his dad his old man and his mom his old lady, the latter of which kinda weirds me out...
He also doesn't want me to call his mom and dad...mom and dad...the only time I've ever seen him be possessive;)
"Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than the next, moves slowly, over periods of years from one part of the earth to another." -Paul Bowles
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I call my dad The Old Fart. It's also the name of one of my ancient computers, but he doesn't know that.
My husband seems to take more offense to the 'old' part than anything else. No matter what I say, he won't accept that it's a term of affection.
Tell Steve about my new neighbors. They're in their early to mid twenties and the other day when I was speaking with Tom, he began to refer to his wife..."my o..., my wife". I asked if he was about to call her his old lady, he said yes and we both laughed. Yep, here it's no big deal :-)
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