By Slanted Light

The best thing about doing something as intensely think-y as my current second-job is that I seem to have woken up wanting to read and think about nothing but Pros and our lads today, and I've not felt like that for aaaages, so yeay! And yeay for a day job where I can... *g* So just to get us started...

They're a bit good, aren't they? *g* They just fit together!

So... think-y things! I recced a story over at ci5hq last week, From Here to Eternity by Ginny and Hestia (from Gryphon Press, which links at palelyloitering I've just realised are down, looks like the pages have been moved... and Doghouse too - gargh, must fix that when I get home!) and I ended up chatting a bit with sc_fossil about comedy and "crack", and it got me... thinking. *g*

( Think-y things about crackfic... )

What an awful shame - the servers are down now, and I have nothing I can do that doesn't involve accessing them... (and if you can work that sentence out - well done!) Oddly enough, t'interweb is still here, so... *g*

I have a question!

Over at scene_again, someone in the 1800s talked about making "catchup", and I wondered what that was, and someone said ketchup, and someone else said catsup, and we all said tomato sauce!

Except - every time I hear someone talking about it in the UK, they seem to call it "ketchup", or "tomato ketchup", so that I thought "tomato sauce" must have been an Australianism that my mum/family had picked up. Only now it turns out that maybe it wasn't, cos some people here do say "tomato sauce" for what (Americans definitely!) call "ketchup".

So... where are you from, and what do you call it?!

...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*