From: "Andy" <as-AT-spelthorne.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 14:23:37 +0000 Subject: Re: cheezy poof clarification > > gordon (the "una beefer", and not the green train from thomas the tank > engine) Wasn't Gordon the blue express train? Henry was Green. I'm going to have to put the video on to check. writes: > >May I ask... how the bleeding HELL did we get homophobia out of the > >snack of a South Park character?!?! > well, over here on the wrong side of the atlantic, a "poof" refers to an > effeminate man. it's a word that is peculiar to britain i suppose, > although here in the land of ire, the word "puff" refers to the same thing. And Private Eye always preferred "poove". > as for south park, well i don't have the foggiest as to what you're talking > about. i don't watch the program because i think it makes rather awful > teevee. And in Blighty it goes out on a Friday night so no-one watches it. If you admit to watching it, you have no life. _as
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