OFF: Brit Slang!

[Arin Komins]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Doug Pearson wrote:

:Subject: Re: OFF: Brit Slang!
:

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:>As to how faggot got it's present connotation I've no idea.
:
:It's because of what was done to those people in particularly brutal,
:closed-minded societies.  Not a pleasant thought at all.  A similar idea to
:the song, "Strange Fruit", perhaps ...

hey.....who did the song "Strange Fruit"?  (I'm rather fond of a British
comedy movie called Still Crazy, about a 70s band getting back together in
the 90s, and the name of the band is "Strange Fruit".

Arin
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