--ScottVR
> Anyway, I think we have done this thread to death, what was the original
> question ????
>
> Cheers
>
> Phil
>
> > ----------
> > From: MegaZone[SMTP:megazone@livingston.com]
> > Reply To: MegaZone
> > Sent: Sunday, May 04, 1997 4:55 AM
> > To: portmaster-users@livingston.com
> > Subject: Re: Dead PM-3 (fwd)
> >
> > Once upon a time falken@htonline.com shaped the electrons to say...
> > >What exactly is "tits up"????
> >
> > Something I last heard when I accidentally said it while working at
> > Xylogics... ;-)
> >
> > At one time it was a rather common saying - if you read older novels
> > or
> > novels set earlier in the century (which I was doing at the time) you
> > may
> > find characters using it.
> >
> > Basically if you are dead you are laid out on your back - tits up.
> >
> > There isn't anything sexual or sexist about it really - in fact it
> > usually
> > got used when some guy in the story got whacked. And it also got
> > applied
> > to inanimate objects, as in "Hell, the tractor's tits up again."
> >
> > But now it isn't politically correct...
> >
> > Language loses a lot of color that way. Which is about as dumb as a
> > bag
> > of hammers...
> >
> > -MZ
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