So bored I could eat myself. Or do memes.

[byslantedlight]

...or else...
Cos in the very first question I was evenly split between the two lists you had to choose from. Waaaah!

I know that only boring people are bored, but... here are some random definitions from my Dictionary of Slang:

Pinta (pron with i long). A pint of milk; sunce ca. 1962. Ex the slogan Drinka pinta milka day.
Sods' holiday: 'Everybody doing something they didn't ought to be' (Tansey, 1984); a complete confusion. Cf. "buggers muddle".
Flying tin-opener: The Hawker Hurricane fighter in its role as tank-destroyer: RAF: 1941+
Flying without a licence: Of a male, forgetfully leaving his fly buttons or zip undone: comprehensive schools': heard in Leicestershire and Sussex, 1977. Elab.: Flying low without...
The Flying Fornicator: The last express train home from London: in many English provincial towns, esp Oxford and Cambridge; earlier C20.
[Sorry, got caught in the flying pages... *g* How about one more...]
Pro-y: Professional; esp., of or like a professional prostitute; since ca. 1920. [Heeeee]

Okay this has actually cheered me right up - any requests?! *g*

Comments

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It's an ace book - I had to have it as soon as I saw it, even though it was very very bad of me... And you know, I think I shall do more... *g*

[icekestrel.livejournal.com]

i love the last one - I guess that's why most of us say Pros, rather than Pro...

Is that online by any chance?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee - well, I figured we say Pros cos there's Bodie and Doyle, but... *g*

It's not online (although d'you know Peevish.co.uk?) and I think it's out of print too (or else hellishly expensive) - I found this copy in a second-hand bookshop in Norwich, which is one of the reasons I adore Norwich... *g*

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

These definitions are funny and chanrming, and maybe even useful research from a fic-writing point of view?

Bosscat can't think of 'pros' as meaning anything but what his slang usage calls 'prozzies'. It's what you're used to, I guess.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yes, I would say definitely useful from a fic-writing point of view! *g* I chose most of the ones above with an eye to the fact that they would have been in use during the eps, so B/D might know them...

What I find weird is when people abbreviate the title of the show to "The Pros", which is when I think it's an abbreviation for "prostitutes". Cos if you're abbreviating The Professionals, surely the first thing you get rid of is the pesky article, and then you're left with a plural shortened "Pros". But The Pros sounds to me very pointed - those specific "Pros", and then "Pros" to me means prostitutes, so... As you say, it's what makes sense, and what you get used to...