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Take the free personality test! ...or else... Take the free personality test!

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*
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Date: Wednesday, 4 February 2009 09:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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?

Date: Friday, 6 February 2009 12:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

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Could've.
Should've.
Would've.
Didn't. Didn't. Didn't.

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