[Magdalen] Timely c***noscopy query.

James Oppenheimer-Crawford oppenheimerjw at gmail.com
Thu Jun 2 13:49:12 UTC 2016


I was thinking that perhaps one might say as the Monty Python folks do at
the end of the Spanish Inquisition Sketch:

"Nobody expects - oh bugger!"

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 6:20 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> Still say bummer. My recollection is that it evolved from "bummed out,"
> which meant (more or less) situationally depressed.
>
> American English differs from British here. A bum in Amercan English is a
> poor person, a hobo. Not a derriere.
>
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 5:35 AM, Roger Stokes <
> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 02/06/2016 09:20, Allan Carr wrote:
> >
> >> I remember when I first heard this word "bummer" from my step-daughter
> in
> >> the mid 1970's.
> >
> >
> >
>


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