boring stuff
Sep. 1st, 2002 02:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopperdoing that occasional leave a few groups thing I do. This happens when I get bored with a fandom, or realise i'm just not interested in prats. Got kickstarted by someone closing a list that has no traffic.
There's one thing I do sometimes hate that as a runner of a Writers' Guild site, and that's having to be on a load of wes lists that I'd otherwise quit, just in case some fic comes through. Actually, sod that. if I don't like that list I'm going to leave it. no rule says I have to be on them, and I'm certainly not on any Wes/Cordy or Wes/Fred, now am I?
This is me suddenly being assertive about the amount of lists I'm on. See how long it takes before my lists creep up to the 90-something mark again....
EDIT: Forgot. Have also discovered, this evening, the origins of the phrases 'blow job' and 'cock and bull story' while in the drinking portion of the meal, between main course and dessert...
Cock and Bull Story. This is very disappointing. There's what used to be a coaching village in what's now Milton Keynes. It had two coaching inns on each side of a street, The Cock and The Bull. The coachdrivers used to stay overnight in these, getting drunk and telling progressively long-winded and pointless stories as the night wore on. Thus phrase. :sigh: And here we'd all thought it was smutty...
Blow Job. This one? It's a simple, plain old english contraction. Like o'clock and wasn't. Comes from 'below job', the term used by Victorian prostitutes for sucking someone off - as in 'below the belt'. In time it got contracted due to good old English vowel laziness. Victorian Prostitution Terms. They fucking rule.
There's one thing I do sometimes hate that as a runner of a Writers' Guild site, and that's having to be on a load of wes lists that I'd otherwise quit, just in case some fic comes through. Actually, sod that. if I don't like that list I'm going to leave it. no rule says I have to be on them, and I'm certainly not on any Wes/Cordy or Wes/Fred, now am I?
This is me suddenly being assertive about the amount of lists I'm on. See how long it takes before my lists creep up to the 90-something mark again....
EDIT: Forgot. Have also discovered, this evening, the origins of the phrases 'blow job' and 'cock and bull story' while in the drinking portion of the meal, between main course and dessert...
Cock and Bull Story. This is very disappointing. There's what used to be a coaching village in what's now Milton Keynes. It had two coaching inns on each side of a street, The Cock and The Bull. The coachdrivers used to stay overnight in these, getting drunk and telling progressively long-winded and pointless stories as the night wore on. Thus phrase. :sigh: And here we'd all thought it was smutty...
Blow Job. This one? It's a simple, plain old english contraction. Like o'clock and wasn't. Comes from 'below job', the term used by Victorian prostitutes for sucking someone off - as in 'below the belt'. In time it got contracted due to good old English vowel laziness. Victorian Prostitution Terms. They fucking rule.
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Date: 2002-09-01 04:06 am (UTC)Never a truer word spoken! This cheered me up no end. Thank you, lovie!