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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org>
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Subject: Re: Doctor Who: RTD in the Radio Times.
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 00:17:13 +1000
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The Doctor wrote on 19/6/24 10:26 pm:
> In article <v4u1um$1s2g6$1@dont-email.me>, Daniel70 
> <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
>> The Doctor wrote on 19/06/2024 6:43 am:
>>> In article <v4sc7s$1e9jc$1@dont-email.me>, The Last Doctor 
>>> <mike@xenocyte.com> wrote:
>>>> 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.
>> 
>> What should Homosexuals be disgusted about, Gobble-de-gook?? YOUR 
>> posts, perhaps!!

Failure to answer question asked ..... *NOTED*

>>>> Not in Britain they won’t. Americans with a modicum of 
>>>> intelligence won’t be either.
>>> 
>>> You might be incorrect.
>> 
>> Or, just for a change, YOU, Gobble-de-gook, might be incorrect!!
> 
> You really must be sheltered Dannyboy!

Don't YOU, Gobble-de-gook, worry about me. I've got a roof over my head,
alright!!
-- 
Daniel