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From: The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com>
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Subject: Re: Doctor Who: RTD in the Radio Times.
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:22:20 -0000 (UTC)
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The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:
> In article <wHfcO.155174$9d96.144774@fx01.ams4>,
> Hornplayer9599  <Hornplayer9599@aol.com> wrote:
>> On 6/18/2024 04:58, The Last Doctor wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> In actual English, that is, in the English used in the England that
>>> developed and still evolves the core version of the language, “*” has
>>> three well-known meanings : an informal term for a cigarette (“get us a
>>> packet of *s while you’re at the shops mate”), to become fatigued (“I
>>> can’t go on. I’m *ged” - this one derives from “fatigue”)
>> and an archaic
>>> term for younger boys at public school who essentially valeted for the
>>> older boys (“Venables Junior was the Honorable Tim EntitledAndDim’s * at
>>> Eton”).
>>> 
>>> Other meanings may have originated in the colonies but they are not in
>>> common use in the U.K. and I’m not from any of those upstart neo-states.
>>> None of the usages in English (as opposed to the bastard child American
>>> English) is swearing. Oh, and a “*got” is either a meatball or bundle of
>>> sticks to be used as a flaming torch. Also not rude, though the contents of
>>> the meatball are often pretty disgusting (warning - often contains offal).
>>> I used to think they had cow brains in them as well when I was a child, but
>>> it transpired that was just the brand name (Google “Brains Faggots”).
>>> 
>>> A “* packet estimate” is a perfectly ordinary and common English
>> term for
>>> an outline solution simple enough to be written on the back of a torn open
>>> cigarette box (twenty’s, typically), for instance when bringing about an
>>> end to world poverty in the pub over the third pint.
>>> 
>> 
>> We can take this out of the English language as well.  In German, the 
>> musical instrument we know as a Bassoon is known as a....*got.
>> 
> 
> Homosexuals will be disgusted.
> 

Not in Britain they won’t. Americans with a modicum of intelligence won’t
be either.

-- 
“Most of the Universe is knackered, babes.”  - The Doctor