From: Champ on
On 7 Sep 2009 15:06:53 GMT, "CT" <me(a)christrollen.co.uk> wrote:

>But if I'd known what it meant, I'd have spotted that it was a typo,
>but I don't and I didn't.

Thank god. I was worrying that it was just me that didn't know.
Cheers, Chris.
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From: Champ on
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 15:57:25 +0100, ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> wrote:

>I guess in your day they all hid in dark corners talking polari.

Polari?

<googles>

Oh.
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From: Hog on
Champ wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 15:57:25 +0100, ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> wrote:
>
>> I guess in your day they all hid in dark corners talking polari.
>
> Polari?
>
> <googles>
>
> Oh.

I only heard of that recently when it came up in an interview of someone
living in Soho at the end of WWII. All very bizarre!

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From: darsy on
On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:44:26 -0600, vulgarandmischevious
<vulgarandmischevious(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>Great question. How does anyone know anything?

you say q-wahl-ia, I say q-way-lia ; let's call the whole thing
off[1].


[1] it's like deja vu, all over again.
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From: Higgins on
CT wrote:
> ogden wrote:
>> CT wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know what a rainbox flag looks like, so it wouldn't have any
>>> significance to me. I'd probably think it was the local mayoral
>>> crest or something.
>> He means rainbow of course.
>
> Yeah, I sussed that from later posts.
>
> But if I'd known what it meant, I'd have spotted that it was a typo,
> but I don't and I didn't.
>
I didn't even spot the typo and parsed it as attended.

I also knew the meaning of the flag.