What is Burma?
1.
South East Asian for "backward."
Dude, your cell phone is bigger than your radio. That's so Burma.
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2.
An expression coined when one cannot think of anything else to say.
Orig: the famous Monty Python sketch about the penguin on the television set. Graham Chapman forgot his line/lost his place, and improvised with the word 'burma'.
chapman: perhaps it came from next door.
cleese: penguins don't come from next door they come from the Antarctic!
chapman: Burma!
cleese: .....why'd you say 'burma'
chapman: I panicked
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3.
What Myanmar was once called.
The Brits finally pulled out of Burma.
Yeah, let's call it Myanmar now.
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Be Upstairs Ready My Angel
When writing home from military, a suggestion that the extramarital lover be away for the weekend. See also
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