Gentleman's Dictionary and Usage

Instead of reaching up to the top shelf in your local newsagents and trying to hide your copy of Big and Busty inside a copy of the Times Literary Supplement a chap can now go to an Internet Cafe and gaze at naked ladies to his heart's content. It costs a few shillings for an hour's gawping but that's money well spent. Apparently.

The Two Chaps would like it to be known that they do not frequent Internet Cafes to gawp at naked ladies or anything else for that matter.

They have their own computers at home.

Posted by S at 08:42 PM | Permalink

Translates roughly as... 'If Allah wills it'.

A marvellously useful term of complete fatalism and one which has no direct English equivalent.

The nearest thing would be '...but on the other hand I might get hit by a number 73 bus tomorrow' - uttered in tones of sodden dejection by a clinical depressive with a strong Solihull accent.

Also, in the current climate, a term almost guaranteed to increase web traffic if only from US government sniffers.

Posted by T at 08:31 PM | Permalink

OED - To introduce a thing forcibly

And we don't mean people breaking into your house

Posted by S at 08:39 PM | Permalink

British sitcom from the seventies that centred around a troupe of soldier/actors who toured India during the Second Little Unpleasantness providing light relief for the troops

Much use was made of camp innuendoes with the only ostensibly straight character being the Sergeant Major, who in real life is a gay as a Bank Holiday. It is alleged.

Posted by S at 04:01 PM | Permalink

The 43rd President of the United States.

Un-elected, barely-literate and proud of it.

Especially popular amongst those who's lips move when they read and who's family trees don't branch out beyond their cousins

Posted by T at 08:23 PM | Permalink