tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515218627607939514.post3858336455957485529..comments2023-11-05T06:54:02.622-06:00Comments on Knights of Creativity Spirit & Ale: Man of StrawdkWellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14036130304612683613noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515218627607939514.post-26881476647855133972009-10-25T13:21:13.117-05:002009-10-25T13:21:13.117-05:00heh.Nice one Lady T.....I know what you mean about...heh.Nice one Lady T.....I know what you mean about Miscommunications... luckily for you guys I have a long history of Being with Americans...and I now i can freely converse and write in Anglo-US, with an in-built US Wordchecker going off in my head when i write blogs and emails. You guys have caught up a little by watching Modern English films... <br /> but if i said i was knackered , you probably wouldn't know what i was on about...lol...<br /><br /> Sir D ( who is indeed knackered after trying on the contents of his wardrobe ( closet ) to weed out the stuff that no longer fits, so he can go buy new stuff that does. ) of OAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515218627607939514.post-72907042714544239402009-10-25T13:10:40.277-05:002009-10-25T13:10:40.277-05:00Oh, awesome! I thought my source was reliable, bu...Oh, awesome! I thought my source was reliable, but I didn't Snopes it out... That'll learn me.<br /><br />I was definitely aware that the etymology took different routes in different English speaking countries. (My Aussie friends and I have had some delightful miscommunications)<br /><br />Lady T (Who likes being wrong if it puts humans in a better light. Even witch-burning humans.)of P-townmommakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18138745092234541349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515218627607939514.post-21430012360752819132009-10-25T12:31:25.908-05:002009-10-25T12:31:25.908-05:00re-reading what i just wrote...i don't think i...re-reading what i just wrote...i don't think i made clear the distictions...lol... In the UK if you used the word faggot here the majority of people would think you meant Meatball. Faggot despite being used by the Public Schools boys... meant to them, a Lackey and its migration to the New World is the only way it came back to the UK to mean Homo-sexual.<br /><br />anyway...the majority of our early Kings were rampant Bisexuals and Homosexuals so we would have been wiping out most of our Royal Families LOL... <br /><br /> I suspect the fact we don't use the F word here, is why is causes such amused consternation across the pond.<br /><br /> Of OAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515218627607939514.post-38760094255961951382009-10-25T11:35:38.407-05:002009-10-25T11:35:38.407-05:00...... and hence why a cigarette is called a Fag ......... and hence why a cigarette is called a Fag in the UK, a burning stick.<br /><br />As for the other matter of the gays being seconded to light the stake...well i think you'll find that is an urban myth and i can find no evidence of it in any of the ancient writings...so Lady Tam i hope that makes you feel a little better.<br /> Faggot over here is the name of a a small spicy meatball which i love...and that term was used by Public School Boys especially at Eton for a young pupil the older pupils used to use to do all their hard work... hence the term fag has ended up as meaning hard work as well. ( its a Fag ) <br /> As Homosexual Practices were rife at these all Boy Schools The Fag would have also been dragged in as a bit sex too... There is every evidence this term then went to America with the first Literary exiles to the New World as the first known published use of the word faggot or fag to refer to a male homosexual appeared in 1914 in the U.S. <br /><br />It referred to a homosexual ball where the men were dressed in drag and called them "fagots (sissies)." Ernest Hemingway, in The Sun Also Rises (1926), included the line, "You're a hell of a good guy, and I'm fonder of you than anybody on earth. I couldn't tell you that in New York. It'd mean I was a faggot." A 1921 cite says, "Androgynes [are] known as 'fairies,' 'fags,' or 'brownies.'" <br /><br />So Rest easy Lady Tam... no Burning of Gays here LOL.. they used to throw cooking fat and hot oil on the stakes to get them going...<br /><br />Sir D( who doesn't smoke fags, or do anything else with them ) of OAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515218627607939514.post-28146388672025642992009-10-25T11:17:19.395-05:002009-10-25T11:17:19.395-05:00Probably old news to you folks much brighter than ...Probably old news to you folks much brighter than me, but I just learned last week the derivation of the term 'faggot' as a derogatory term for a gay man. Of course the term also means a bundle of sticks, or kindling. During the witch hunt days, gay men were used to fuel the fires in which the 'witches' were burnt. Thus...<br /><br />Lady T. (who is straight but not narrow and would never use that word in it's derogatory sense and had a bit of a rough time typing it) of Pickeringtonmommakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18138745092234541349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515218627607939514.post-71857900900400888572009-10-25T08:53:16.728-05:002009-10-25T08:53:16.728-05:00I often wonder how God sorts out the requests of H...I often wonder how God sorts out the requests of His deranged Ape offspring?<br /><br />"Please God, bless me as I burn this Catholic" "Please God, bless me as I burn this heretic Protestant." "Please God, don't let them score a touchdown now." "Please God, let me score a touchdown now."<br /><br />Fire obviously has an elemental appeal to us HB's. Followed closely by the urge to throw someone who doesn't agree with us into it!<br /><br />I think that if we quit asking God to help us kill each other we might hear Him say softly, "Why don't you all get on the Wicker Man...I have a really big match!"<br /><br />In the great words of Achmed the Dead Terrorist, "SILENCE...I KEELLL YOU!"<br /><br />Sir Hook "I'm Burning, I'm Burning For You" of WarrickdkWellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14036130304612683613noreply@blogger.com