#93315
01/30/2003 10:17 AM
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Dear AnnaStrophic, the phrase comes from a long gone but deservedly popular British TV programme called The Minder. George Cole portrayed Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer cum general minor rogue with a wife who was never shown. He always referred to her as " 'er indoors".
Dennis Waterman (who had previously played 2IC to John Thaw in The Sweeney) played the part of the eponymous minder (ie: bodyguard) to George Cole. It would be oversimplifying things to consider the programme as just another comedy. George Cole, an excellent actor - I first remember him in 'A life of Bliss' on the radio - became well known when he took the part of Flash Harry, the spiv in the St Trinian films. He is that type of character actor who always gives good value for money and is capable of holding a play or show together and lifting everyone elses performance. Although he has usually played in comedy he is capable of putting a lot of depth into his work and really developing a character. I have seen him play villains and romantic leads with total assurance. His development of Arthur Daley as a likeable but selfish coward from whom you were always hoping for better things, but never getting them, was masterly.
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#93316
01/30/2003 1:38 PM
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if we name this new democratic process after tsuwm
I propose naming the unit of measure the tsuwm. It would be equal to 1000 hits. Thus hubbub would score 61.6 tsuwms and hub-bub 5.72 tsuwms.
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#93317
01/30/2003 1:46 PM
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That's great, now we just need to get it into the SI system of units. Because the SI system requires abbreviations to be with a capital letter where the unit is named for a person, we would have to have 5.72Ts even though tsuwm starts with a lower case letter. But I suspect in practice we would normally wish to use the name in full.
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#93319
01/30/2003 3:30 PM
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...Dennis Waterman (who had previously played 2IC to John Thaw in The Sweeney) played the part of the eponymous minder (ie: bodyguard) to George Cole. It would be oversimplifying things to consider the programme as just another comedy. George Cole, an excellent actor - I first remember him in 'A life of Bliss' on the radio - became well known when he took the part of Flash Harry, the spiv in the St Trinian films.It's, like, you're talking about life on another planet... 
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#93320
01/30/2003 3:34 PM
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tsuwm is a real word!?  Faldage scores 1.4Ts (1,490). And, ommigod, look!...the 8th hit!: >FALDAGE In old English law, faldage was the privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them. The prviledge was often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor.< http://probertencyclopaedia.com/A6.HTM Sorry, Faldo...but I didn't make this up! Sheep, Pfranz!!?
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#93321
01/30/2003 3:42 PM
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...the 8th hit...YARTerrific. I swear you were there, too... with us *sheep. 
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#93322
01/30/2003 3:51 PM
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YARTerrific Like it!...I'll take that as a *compliment!  And is it true that a moose who can hold a melody makes moosick?
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#93323
01/30/2003 4:31 PM
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tsuwm is a real word!? I demand derivation!! Sorry, Faldo...but I didn't make this up!Just wake up, Juan? 
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#93324
01/30/2003 4:53 PM
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Its like, you're talking about life on another planet... No, I'm here with some others. *You're someplace else.. .
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#93325
01/30/2003 5:08 PM
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Where's Pfranz Capfka when you 'needham'.
Is this like "Waiting for Godot"???
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#93326
01/30/2003 7:12 PM
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I first heard " 'er indoors" from a London-born neighbour when I were a rugrat, long before George and Denis used it. Loved it, even then. "The Minder" scriptwriters just picked it up. It appears to be quite a common East End term.
- Pfranz
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#93327
01/30/2003 11:56 PM
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And what's your take on faldage being an olde English word that relates to sheep, P franz?
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#93328
01/31/2003 4:57 AM
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hub-bub, with the hyphen, gets 5,720 hits on Google
O my darlin'....that don't mean it's right! If you Google "Artic" you get 327,000 hits (and a little note saying, "Did you mean ARCTIC?"!) Google the kerrect spelling, Arctic, and you get 3,120,000 hits.
Proportions pretty close to what you get for hub-bub and hubbub, doncha think? but in each case, the former is WRONG, dagnabbit!
Which is my verbose way of saying: I vote for Number One!
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#93329
01/31/2003 7:13 AM
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And what's your take on faldage being an olde English word that relates to sheep, Pfranz? Oh, I don't know, Juan, I think I'll take damned near any crap from a man who has flying squirrels ensconced in his rafters ... sheep are easy meat by comparison! Quite apart from which, I already knew where faldage came from, even if I'm not sure why Faldage took the word on as his sobriquet! - Pfranz
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