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Topic Options #103452 - 05/18/03 08:02 AM The Full... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/13/01 Posts: 4189 Loc: Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... A new film, "Calendar Girls," about the middle-aged Brit women who stripped off for charity, is getting raves and creating something of a sensation at the Cannes Film Festival...and has, evdiently, given a "new" phrase to the English language... The Full Mandy! (ohhhhh, nooooo!) Top #103453 - 05/18/03 08:49 AM Re: The Full... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/13/01 Posts: 4189 Loc: Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... ...tracing the etymology back to General Mandygomery, of course! Top #103454 - 05/18/03 04:25 PM Re: The Full... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/13/01 Posts: 4189 Loc: Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... Just for clarification...the full mandy is not my own pun (thank God!). The media in Cannes started floating it around in press about "Calendar Girls" and the broadcast media here has already picked up on it. Really. Top Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8423 Members 16 Forums 13686 Topics 209751 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members teepee, smoothcriminal86, janbra, junebug, Stephen A 8423 Registered Users Who's Online 1 registered (tsuwm), 34 Guests and 2 Spiders online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) LukeJavan8 87 jenny jenny 66 wofahulicodoc 53 endymion6 45 Rhubarb Commando 35 BranShea 35 Buffalo Shrdlu 19 zmjezhd 16 Jackie 16 Faldage 14 May Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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