OFF: Brit Slang!

[William Duffy]

> Ok...here is one.....the term "Fag" in "amerikun" slang connotates someone
> attracted to the same sex.   "Fag" in the UK is a cigarette.
>
> When I first heard of a cigarrette referred to as a "Fag", it made me
laugh
> due to the other connotation, and it was a curiosity as to how that came
> about to begin with.
>
> Oh well, whatever....just a passing thought.....no biggie....
>

It was also used back in the olden days in those posh english schools, where
the fag was the schoolboy equivilent to the batman in the army, doing things
like running errands for the older boy, polishing shoes, etc..