In a message dated 25/07/01 13:41:25 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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<< I was looking a word up from a Joni article that I had never heard
(snarkey?) and I stumbled across these slang dictionaries. They're really
fun! I never knew that fanny means something totally different in England!
>>
That's a hardy perennial of cross-water confusion, Kerry! I can remember
blanching when I first someone talk about getting a kick up the fanny... then
there's the (possibly apocryphal) tale of John McEnroe at Wimbledon one year
saying something like "we need to get more fannies on seats" - he's a sly old
fox, and I reckon he probably knew what he was saying, but could hide behind
the language barrier. We would say "bums on seats", but maybe to you that
conjures up images of loads of vagrants being bused in to fill the stadium...
Azeem
