OFF: Brit Slang!

[alan day]

Me again...wots up Mr NO it all... Ho Ho get yer faxs right b4 callin me a
little asshole...Oh..I1m just soooo upset!!yeah yeah!! its not fair...


>From: Steven Skane <sskane at BIGPOND.NET.AU>
>Reply-To: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
>To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU
>Subject: Re: OFF: Brit Slang!
>Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 20:04:36 +1000
>
>Smeg is short for smegma, a natural lubricant on the foreskin. The word
>smeg
>has been used in comedy for twenty years or more. I was hoping someone else
>would come up with the answer and it is most inconvenient to be stirred
>from
>my apathy and sloth.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Michael W Blackman" <Michaelangelo68 at AOL.COM>
>To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
>Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 11:18 AM
>Subject: Re: OFF: Brit Slang!
>
>
> > Nahhhhhhh - they simply would have gone with channel four(?)  ((the
>dirty
>channell)) in that case.
> > Phwoooooaaaarrrrrrr!!!  England has the best tv shows let me tell ya LOL
> >
> >
> > In a message dated Thu, 8 Aug 2002 11:09:00  AEDT, Chuck Rosenberg
><Chuckrecs at AOL.COM> writes:
> >
> > > In a message dated 8/7/02 4:56:58 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> > > dave at CRAZY-DAVE.NET writes:
> > >
> > > > >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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