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Some of you may have seen some (or all!) of these before - my cousin sent them to me and how I laughed at some of them!
Truly Amazing Anagrams: ***
David Ginola
Vagina dildo
Teddy Sheringham
Teddy Minge rash
Ossie Ardiles
Arse is soiled
Diego Maradona
O dear, I'm a gonad
Tony Blair PM
I'm Tory plan B
Virginia Bottomley
I'm an evil Tory bigot
Michael Heseltine
Elect him, he's alien
David Mellor
Dildo marvel
Dame Agatha Christie
I am a right death case
The Metropolitan Police Force
I'm fellatio, the erect porno cop
Benson and Hedges
NHS been a godsend
Selina Scott
Elastic snot
Mel Gibson
Big melons
Gloria Estefan
Large fat noise
Chris Rea
Rich arse
Martina Navratilova
Variant rival to a man
Gabriela Sabatini
Insatiable airbag
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
O my terrible drains below
Evangelist
Evil's Agent
The Morse Code
Here Come Dots
Mother-in-law
Woman Hitler
Semolina
Is No Meal
A Decimal Point
I 'm a Dot in Place
Eleven plus two
Twelve plus one
President Clinton, of the USA
To copulate, he finds interns
And a final one ....
Motorway Service Station
I eat coronary vomit stews.
Let us go in peace to love and serve the board.
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thanks for that - more good anagrams!
No, I don't know who some of them are either. However, some of them, though unknown to me, still make me chuckle - like the "I am a gonad" one. Guess I'm deeply in touch with my inner 12-year-old boy!
Let us go in peace to love and serve the board.
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David Ginola - Long-haired foppish French guy adored by English girls and 'the face' of Head and Shoulders. I think he also plays football (soccer) Teddy Sheringham - ah, this guy does play football because he's a pug-faced cockney (and therefore useless for modelling) who has about as much chance of getting a snog as a baboon's arse. He can finish, though.... Oh, he also plays for England but I wouldn't hold that against him. Ossie Ardiles - One of the greatest footballer's of our time. He won the world cup in 1978 with Argentina and then went on to a very successful playing career in England with Tottenham Hotspur. For some reason he mistakenly thought that he could transfer this success to managing the club. He is now on the 'where are they now?' list. Diego Maradona - The greatest living footballer (not counting Pele and Garrincha of Brazil) who won the world cup with Argentina in 1986 and scored a beaut of a goal against England (well, two actually). The other with his, ahem, head. He is now competing with Elvis for the title of most drugged-out, overweight has-been of the century. Tony Blair PM - The President of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Like the last paragraph of Animal Farm you could look at him and then at Margaret Thatcher and damn me if you could tell the difference. Virginia Bottomley - Ah, yes. She used to be the Tory (Conservative) minister for health in John Major's cabinet. She single-handedly managed to turn the NHS into what it isn't today. She's very popular with the elderly, ill, unions, nurses, doctors, pensioners - just about everyone, really. But then again, maybe I've been misinformed. Michael Heseltine - Some mad bugger who managed to get into Margaret Thatcher's government and, within a few weeks, declared war on Argentina. Funnily enough, he wasn't sacked for this and John Major even thought he was worth keeping for his cabinet. Mad, mad, MAD! David Mellor - Another Tory MP with the same looks as Teddy Sheringham but not half the playing skill. Infamously caught in a three-in-a-bed tryst in the early '90s he resigned his post and moved to the back-benches. When he lost his seat he became a football commentator (Hells Bells!). The Metropolitan Police Force - The British police operatic society. Benson and Hedges - a not very funny comedy partnership who'll have you gagging. Selina Scott - a former TV newsreader and interviewer who's been boughed quite a bit (geddit?)  Mel Gibson - A right tulip Gloria Estefan - Miami vice Chris Rea - a Geordie musician who's actually quite good live. Pity you can't understand much of what he says. Martina Navratilova - Ugh! Gabriela Sabatini - Another Argentinian (how do they all get in here?). A great tennis player and a looker. Like a cross between Navratilova and Kournikova. President Clinton, of the USA - The last President of the USA, apparently. He has a penchant for saxophones and cigars but doesn't necessarily use them for what they were meant. Edited to include a def for RC as requested below.....
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I love your explanations, Rube!  But your entry re: T. B. PM surprised me - surprised you bothered to type his name - is he really worth the effort? (For those who still want to know, I think he's Lionel Blair's relative.)
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But your entry re: T. B. PM surprised me -
surprised you bothered to type his name - is he really worth the effort?
Happy to oblige ya, RC! See above for the latest defs....
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See above for the latest defs....Love 'em, Rube!
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Many thanks, Rube, for a masterly definition, indeed. The only significant difference bewteen TB and MT is that she is marginally prettier!
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Here's one for Helen Clark: HACKER NELL. (Hi, CK.)
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>Here's one for Helen Clark: HACKER NELL. (Hi, CK.)
Unfortunately, the chairman of the Wellingborough branch of the Helen Clark fan club missed a fine performance last week. The usually unflappable premiere was asked some very thoughtful questions by NZ's most intelligent TV interviewer, and responded by completely losing her rag, describing the gentleman interrogator the next day as "that little prick". Very entertaining stuff.
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describing the gentleman interrogator the next day as "that little prick".She obviously knows something we don't.......
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Benson and Hedges - a not very funny comedy partnership who'll have you gagging.
not heard of these but they are also a brand of fags, or did i miss a joke?
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.....but they are also a brand of fags, or did i miss a joke?
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describing the gentleman interrogator the next day as "that little prick".
She obviously knows something we don't.......
Ha! Sounds like the interviewer knew his stuff. I've never heard the expression losing her rag before, but it's obvious what it means. Is it related to being "on the rag", I wonder?
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to being "on the rag", I wonder?
heh, don't think so Jackie! The funny thing is I had not realised this colloquialism was at all exceptional, but a quick googlehaul shows only 33 examples of the feminine variant to 145 of the male's tendency to lose their temper ;)
What's more nearly all the hits are UK sites, with an Aussie one thrown in too; what's more more is that most of the references seem to occur in discussions about football (soccer).
I still have no clue as to the phrase's origins, so over to the detectives...
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Verrry interesting, as there are all sorts of potential connections here.
The closest equivalent to losing your rag is simply losing your temper, and my first thought was that the phrase may be a corruption of "loosing your rage". However, it feels [very scientific again, Fisk] more closely related to "ragging" as in winding up or taking the piss, i.e. someone rags you and you lose your rag (which is implicitly not the reaction of a good sport or gentleman).
As to ragging=winding up, that's probably related to teasing/playing with animals like dogs (especially) and bulls (like a red rag to a bull).
The more I think about it the more the dog connection seems appropriate. If you manage, by some miracle, to pull a rag out of a dog's mouth, it'll go for you like a mad 'un. And a big dog that's not been raised as a family animal will be genuinely dangerous (and angry) if teased past a certain point.
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Very rarely you'll hear a Dubliner saying he's 'on the rag' tonight. Most people just say 'on the piss'. They both mean to go out drinking.
We do also say 'losing the rag' but there's no connection.
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and do USns and antipodean cousins use the phrase Rag Week for licensed mayhem at university/college?
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For my part, at my alma mater, "licensed mayhem" (I love that turn of phrase, mav) was confined to Blue Monday every spring. It's a little more complex than that, being that it was the final stroke in an inter-class competition wherein bets were paid off and the losing class was relegated to walking the Mill Stream. The preceding week was called Glee Week, Glee being a tradition specific to my university - teams representing each class year would write and perform a song based on a theme, culminating in the inter-class competition on Friday night. Seniors had the opportunity to lampoon the events of the school year in Senior Skits, and seniors also wore beanies (traditionally the purview of freshmen, but it's not classified as hazing if a class is wearing them willfully). Kind of a quirky tradition of the school I went to, and realistically the mayhem lasted all of Glee Week and through Blue Monday - but Blue Monday was the only *condoned* expression of said mayhem. Never heard the term Rag Week until you mentioned it!
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Rag Week for licensed mayhem at university/collegeHeck, but that takes me back, mav! There was often a "Rag Mag" too, which usually consisted of a great many bad taste (and Viz-like) jokes. Such as a cartoon I remember quite vividly - In the foreground is a flattened cat with four bones sticking out of its back at leg positions. High up above it is a bridge. A couple of kids are peering over the side of the bridge. One says to the other: "I told you they always land on their feet". 
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Rag Week for licensed mayhem at university/college
I've never heard of it before. In fact, at neither of my universities was there (that I am aware) a period of licensed mayhem. Perhaps, given their size (MSU - 43,000; OSU - 65,000), all days contained mayhem.
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Speaking on behalf of the antipodean cousins (oops, I should know better than that, I'll just speak for me) I've never heard the term Rag Week used in relation to University/College mayhem. Maybe I'm just not edumacated enough though...
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