In a message dated 1/14/2002 3:28:21 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jimweb@simonides.prestel.co.uk writes:
<< > Pip pip and Cheerio, old sod.
As member of the most civilized country on this planet we do not refer
to each other as a sod - its an insulting and derogatory name of the
lowest order.
>>
Lower than calling a person a Rag Head? Seems like quid pro quo to me.
Having spent many months in Merry Olde England, I am intimately aware of the
meaning. Why else would I have used it? You seem to require a lesson in irony
or, at least, tongue-in-cheek.
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