Re: Doctor Who: RTD in the Radio Times.

The Doctor wrote on 19/06/2024 6:46 am:

In article <mcjcO.37573$4k58.26156@fx08.ams4>, Hornplayer9599 <Hornplayer9599@aol.com> wrote:

On 6/18/2024 11:22, The Last Doctor wrote:

The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:

In article <wHfcO.155174$9d96.144774@fx01.ams4>,
Hornplayer9599 <Hornplayer9599@aol.com> wrote:

On 6/18/2024 04:58, The Last Doctor wrote:

 In actual English, that is, in the English used in the England that developed and still evolves the core version of the language, “*” has three well-known meanings :
an informal term for a cigarette (“get us a packet of *s while you’re at the shops mate”), to become fatigued (“I can’t go on. I’m *ged” - this one derives from “fatigue”) and an archaic term for younger boys at
public school who essentially valeted for the older boys
(“Venables Junior was the Honorable Tim
EntitledAndDim’s * at Eton”).
 Other meanings may have originated in the colonies but
they are not in common use in the U.K. and I’m not from
any of those upstart neo-states. None of the usages in
English (as opposed to the bastard child American English)
is swearing. Oh, and a “*got” is either a meatball or
bundle of sticks to be used as a flaming torch. Also not
rude, though the contents of the meatball are often pretty
disgusting (warning - often contains offal). I used to
think they had cow brains in them as well when I was a
child, but it transpired that was just the brand name
(Google “Brains Faggots”).
 A “* packet estimate” is a perfectly ordinary and common English term for an outline solution simple enough
to be written on the back of a torn open cigarette box
(twenty’s, typically), for instance when bringing about
an end to world poverty in the pub over the third pint.

 We can take this out of the English language as well.  In German, the musical instrument we know as a Bassoon is known as a....*got.

 Homosexuals will be disgusted.

 Dave...will you /please/, for your own sake, pull your head out of your ass, and crawl out of your parent's basement for at least 10 minutes?
 

Not in Britain they won’t. Americans with a modicum of intelligence won’t be either.

 And neither will homosexuals who are also Bassoon players (and I know a few).

 Maggots!

And what did Christ (try to) teach us, Gobble-de-gook, .... something
like "Love one another as I have loved YOU."
Try it sometime, Gobble-de-gook.
--
Daniel