When Royal was visiting this last time, I was made privy to a phrase that was up until then unknown to me. Now I'll never be the same...
Harry Von Es-pigs. It's not weird. It's a Royal Marine (RM) thing.
Basically here's what you do:
Take a RM word such as Essence.
1) Add 'Harry Von' to the front
2) Shorten said word, in this case to 'Es'
3) Add pigs to the end
This means that something is not only essence, but essence in a spectacular and amazing fashion.
For example: That [BBQ pizza] looks harry von es-pigs. And, yes, that is a real example and the first time I'd ever heard it said. And yes, essence means beautiful or amazingly pretty, but apparently the RMs make the rules so they can change them if the pizza is out of this world.
Also commonly heard in real life:
Harry von ice-pigs ~ Bloody cold. Shortened icers to ice. Icers means very cold.
Harry von red-pigs ~ Bloody hot. Shortened redders to red. Redders means very hot.
Not ever heard in real life: anytime Kath tries to use it in a sentence (which was only while he was here, to make him laugh). In any other case, it's just not right ;o)
More RM Commando slang/terms here and here
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