OFF: Brit Slang!
Richard Lockwood
rich at BEERPOWEREDNOISEFRENZY.CO.UK
Wed Aug 7 20:17:42 EDT 2002
Ah. Err, no it isn't... :-)
However, you're kind of right. A bit like Ronnie Barker in Porrage
popularised the word "berk". As in the rhyming slang "Berkshire Hunt"...
:-)
Cheers,
Rich.
>
> > >Is "smeg" a peculiarly English thing, available only to those overseas
> > >people in the Red-Dwarf-know ?
> >
>
> I guess it's just a "futuristic slang word" which can stand in for "shit"
or
> "fuck", so that RD could virtually get away w/the above two taboos.
Perhaps
> avaialble to any Western countries afiliated w/the Space Corps...or
perhaps
> just reserved for futuristic Brits... (not so off-topic, right??) :) I
can
> talk about HW or BOC, if needs must... (sigh)
>
> Chuck
>
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