Alcaray is right. "Bugger" is British for "Rats!"

Tom Brosz — 3/3/2004 5:45:05 PM (archived)

Shouldn't be taken literally any more than most American epithets. In a house full of Python fans, it's heard quite often.

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For Derek - Tony - 2/26/2004 3:00:03 PM
- Weighing in on SDAI- Teckie1 - Lindy - 3/3/2004 5:29:52 AM
- To which I humbly add: - Davin L. - 3/3/2004 4:40:37 AM
  - And I staunchly - Betsy - 3/3/2004 2:04:30 PM
    - Thanks Betsy - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/4/2004 8:00:23 PM
      - Careful Betsy - Lindy - 3/5/2004 6:30:59 AM
      - Link messed up - SDT1 - 3/4/2004 8:04:41 PM
  - I Get The Picture - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/3/2004 10:13:21 AM
    - Note to those on the right side of middle: - alcaray - 3/3/2004 4:27:21 PM
  - Cant have one. - Tony - 3/3/2004 5:11:40 AM
- Morality - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/26/2004 8:40:34 PM
  - Piss them off you did. - RobVG - 3/4/2004 4:45:40 AM
    - Thanks Rob - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/4/2004 7:27:40 PM
  - See - Tony - 2/26/2004 9:29:12 PM
    - Bugger* - Tony - 2/27/2004 12:41:04 PM
      - re: Bugger* - gbaikie - 3/3/2004 9:07:06 AM
        
        Alcaray is right. "Bugger" is British for "Rats!" - Tom Brosz - 3/3/2004 5:45:05 PM
        
        re: Alcaray is right. "Bugger" is British for "Rats!" - gbaikie - 3/4/2004 1:48:51 AM
        
        "Bugger" is British for "bugger". It's a verb. Not a nice verb. (n/t) - Bowser - 3/4/2004 2:06:26 AM
        
        It's a verb, a noun, an adjective. - Tony - 3/12/2004 3:31:35 PM
        
        Bugger: Strong and supposedly adult (R-rated?) way of saying "darn it!" (n/t) - alcaray - 3/3/2004 4:15:55 PM
    - Cool hand wave! - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/27/2004 3:45:54 AM
      - What I'd like to know, - Lee - 2/27/2004 6:36:45 AM
        
        The best I can do.... - FrankC - 2/29/2004 8:10:16 PM
        
        Proof for a genetic cause is spotty at best. - Lee - 3/3/2004 7:47:44 AM
        
        It is both... - FrankC - 3/3/2004 4:32:44 PM
        
        A moot point, since we may never find out the truth. - Tom Brosz - 3/3/2004 5:49:05 PM
        
        Genetic engineering on gays - Tom Brosz - 3/3/2004 2:51:06 AM
        
        Good point (n/t) - FrankC - 3/3/2004 4:23:26 PM
        
        The eradication of homosexuals... - SteveS - 3/2/2004 6:44:21 PM
        
        You really don't see any difference? (n/t) - alcaray - 2/27/2004 6:38:12 PM
        
        No I don't. - Lee - 2/27/2004 7:10:51 PM
        
        re: No I don't. - McFly - 3/2/2004 9:44:41 PM
        
        All I'm saying is this. - Lee - 3/3/2004 7:53:39 AM
        
        Do you have a hard time telling apart jay-walking from murder? (n/t) - alcaray - 2/27/2004 7:52:42 PM
        
        In the first case there is no mutual consent, in the second there are severe biological reasons - Tony - 2/27/2004 12:46:29 PM
        
        Don't ask...cause they wont tell! ;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/27/2004 6:55:22 AM
  - re: Cultural evolution - Raoul - 2/26/2004 9:20:06 PM
    - re: Cultural evolution - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/27/2004 4:02:42 AM
  - Sad Depressed Angry Infantile (n/t) - Bowser - 2/26/2004 8:48:34 PM
- Whoa, easy steady there, Tony. (Heh, heh, that's what they usually tell me.) - Bowser - 2/26/2004 5:00:08 PM
  - linking a post - FrankC - 3/1/2004 5:28:31 PM
    - P.S. - FrankC - 3/1/2004 5:39:56 PM
      - your powers of perception are suspect - Tony - 3/3/2004 5:05:59 AM
        
        not so - FrankC - 3/3/2004 5:31:48 PM
        
        specifics - Mary Anne - 3/4/2004 4:38:58 PM
        
        Bigots - RobVG - 3/6/2004 6:09:24 PM
        
        PS: Definitions - Mary Anne - 3/7/2004 5:45:54 PM
        
        I bet you're a fine chess player. - RobVG - 3/7/2004 9:28:27 PM
        
        Chess? No. - Mary Anne - 3/7/2004 9:47:12 PM
        
        Amazed - Tom Brosz - 3/8/2004 2:13:08 AM
        
        I guess it's all where you put the emphasis - Mary Anne - 3/7/2004 5:07:12 PM
        
        You are 100% correct Rob (n/t) - FrankC - 3/7/2004 4:26:04 AM
        
        If you can't stand the heat......get out of the kitchen - Lindy - 3/7/2004 7:38:43 AM
        
        I think he is wrong - FrankC - 3/4/2004 6:27:49 PM
        
        re: I think he is wrong - gbaikie - 3/5/2004 2:42:55 AM
        
        re: specifics - Tom Brosz - 3/4/2004 5:08:07 PM
        
        I agree - Mary Anne - 3/4/2004 5:24:24 PM
        
        re: I agree - Tom Brosz - 3/5/2004 4:51:26 PM
  - Sometimes I forget that I can't just turn my head to talk to another person in the conversation. - Mary Anne - 2/26/2004 5:18:14 PM
  - Agreed. - Mary Anne - 2/26/2004 5:14:46 PM
    - re: Agreed. - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/27/2004 4:18:25 AM
      - A short bibliography for your perusal - Mary Anne - 2/27/2004 2:01:46 PM
        
        SUVs - Tom Brosz - 2/27/2004 11:04:04 PM
        
        Thanks - Mary Anne - 2/28/2004 4:32:48 AM
        
        Continuity - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/28/2004 7:40:52 AM
    - re: Agreed. - tony - 2/26/2004 5:20:13 PM

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