On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:12:38 GMT, "George W. Frost"
wrote:
"Peter Hucker" wrote in message
.. .
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:13:04 -0500, Ann wrote:
Peter Hucker expounded:
But there
are certain things Americans say (like "my bad") which make absolutely
no sense. My bad judgement? My bad luck? It could mean one of a
number of completely different things.
Yea, well, you smoke fags over there and that's pretty ridiculous to
our minds, too ;-
The smoking fags were around long before the perverted ones. It was
them what stole the word.
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Very funny, Scotty... Now beam down my clothes!
You are complaining about his use of the words "my bad"? and here you are,
using a phrase that is all out of whack with grammar:
For comic effect ffs.
The smoking fags were around long before the perverted ones. It was them
what stole the word.
If you do a check, you will find that the wacky tobaccy has been around for
a lot longer than cultivated tobacco
Research has shown that it has been used since the stone ages Rudgley,
Richard : The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age.
Exactly. But poofters haven't been called fags for long. And they
used to be illegal anyhow.
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