David Knowles wrote:
>
> couldn't resist this
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> From: David Knowles
> To: MGDIGEST
> Subject: Fag Ash
> Date: 20 October 1997 09:39
>
> Paul Hunt wrote:
>
> >>>> In the middle of France this year, with MG, staying at a hotel and
> who
> should be there but 'Ventris', one of the main characters, famous for
> his hard-boiled eggs and being covered in fag-ash.
> PaulH.<<<<
>
> For the benefit of our American cousins, perhaps I should explain that
> "fag ash" is the result of smoking cigarettes and not the result of a
> gay conflagration.
I can remember when 'gay' meant happy, 'pink' was just a colour,
'queer' meant unwell, and 'cottage' was a small house.
PaulH.
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