(337) catch you on the flip side!

Long-distance truckers

Newsletter February 2012 volume 19 を読んだ。　Ehime University English Education Center が出している無料のチラシで、B4サイズの裏表に英文の記事が載っている。ときどき読んで楽しんでいる。

Catch you on the flip side! の意味は？
⇒I'll contact you on the return trip

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Goodbye Ehime University
Timothy (Toby) Curtis
First: thanks for the memories everyone... field trips to Dogo, pizza on the last day of class, Halloween parties, making class magazine and web pages, Nou-bado classes held outdoors, Little Miss Sunshine, inter-office  antics... all part of a very "special" experience.

Second: good luck inthe future! For English language students, please persever, and get out there and use English in the real world. Go abroad! University is one of the best times to travel, and studying in another country can broaden your horizons and do wonders for your English. This past summer, I went to Greece (my first trip to Europe) for two weeks and had a delightful time visiting ancient sites like Parthenon, experiencing Greek culture, food, and music, practicing listening to and speaking the little Greek I studied in college, and of course, island-hopping and relaxing on the beach. You can have your own unique and exciting language-building experience in the exotic location of your choice. And don't forget - English is YOUR language. Just because you were born in Japan doesn't mean that English is a language of "foreigners". Make English a part of you.

Finally: keep in touch! You can find me on Facebook ("Toby Curtis"), Twitter ("tobytimothy"), Mixi ("Toby"), and a myriad of other time-wasting yet addictive social networking sites.
Catch you on the flip side!
引用終わり
field trip：校外学習、校外見学、社会見学、遠足
antics：《antics》ふざけたしぐさ［態度］、滑稽な態度
persever [pə`ːrsəvi'ər]：目的を貫く、やり抜く
do wonders：驚くほど効果がある
island-hopping：Custom Tour Packages & Sightseeing Of All Greek Attractions.
on the beach：ビーチ［浜辺・海辺］で
language-building experience：⇒vocabulary building って言葉はある
a myriad of：無数の


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flip side of the coinについての質問に答えている文章を読むと、そこにflip side of the coinの説明があった。　このサイトかなり気に入った！
: : : : : : : : : : : What is the meaning and origin of "flip side"? Thanks.

: : : : : : : : : : It comes, I believe, from those old-fashioned things (pre-CD, pre-tape, pre-reel-to-reel, and pre-8-track tape) called records -- used to be played on record players. The disks have two sides -- on a 45 RPM disk, sides A & B. The song that the record company wanted to promote most heavily would go on the A side. So when a DJ played that side, he'd (they were always "he" back then) sometimes say, "And now on the flip side...", and play side B, the lesser known track.

: : : : : : : : : Oh, Lord, I'm getting old.

: : : : : : : : Me, too. Oy. There is another use of flip side, derived from the gone-and-best-forgotten CB radio fad of the '70s, (Do they still exist?) Long-distance truckers, and trucker wannabes, speaking from truck-to-truck. "Catch you on the flip side" was CB slang for "I'll contact you on the return trip" ... the metaphor of a record turning being applied to you trip from Point B back to A.