----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Sullivan" <
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net> To: <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002
9:50 PM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Rankin & slang question
> I'd just started Black & Blue when I ran across
the phrase
> "like-your-loafers." Is that how that phrase goes in
the UK, or at
> least Scotland?
It isn't a phrase that's prevalent in the circles I move in
(I should move in a straight line and then maybe I'll get
where I'm going) despite the fact that I live in the same
town as Mr Rankin. However, a "like-your-loafers" is a
homosexual and the phrase is derived from an imagined gay
chat-up line. It's probably a modification of an Ancient
Greek phrase which roughly translates as
"like-your-sandals".
> Also, what's Irn-Bru? Perhaps because of the "Bru,"
I had always
> assumed it was a beer, but here it is implied that
it is non-alcoholic.
> Is it a non-alcoholic beer, some sort of soft drink,
what?
Irn-Bru is to Scotland what Coca-Cola is to the US. For an
excellent description, have a look at http://www.britishdelights.com/drinks.htm
Al
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