File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9905, message 667


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.


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