Little know facts

[BrianSnail]

Brian - Of all the replies in this thread you pick on POSH!!

SHAME ON YOU!

I know, I know...<hangs head in shame>

In my defence, it is very early and I haven't had coffee yet...

[EternalOptimist]

William Shatners hairpieces are made from the silken pubic hair of the female Gopher. He has three, of differing lengths , to give the impression of it growing then being cut.

[foritisme]

I tell lies. That's the truth.

[BrowneIssue]

I tell lies. That's the truth.

And that is the perfect example of the Liar Paradox.

[Doggy Styles]

I tell lies. That's the truth.

Ah, but I always lie.

[FSM with Cheddar]

Ah, but I always lie.

If I asked you five minutes ago "Do you always lie?" what would your answer have been?

[Sysman]

Urban myth alert!!

Hmm.

NOTE. A pervasive folk etymology renders the term as an acronym of p(ort) o(out), s(tarboard) h(ome), with ref. to the ideal accomodations on the passage to India by way of the Suez Canal, a packet service provided by the Peninsula and Eastern steamship line. The acronym is said to explain the right placement of one's stateroom for being on the shady or the lee side of the ship.

Another data point. My grandmother told me the acronym when I was a nipper. Her elder sister had spent many years out in India, and she would have travelled there and back by ship.

[b0redom]

Chuck Norris' tears can cure cancer - this can't be proven however, as he has NEVER cried.

[NotAllThere]

Hmm.



Another data point. My grandmother told me the acronym when I was a nipper. Her elder sister had spent many years out in India, and she would have travelled there and back by ship.

The word "posh" has existed for some time, in its current meaning. But it Arthur Akroyd who first came up with the apocryphal acronym, during his summer tour, the Neasden venue, 1928.

- Turned out nice again.
<<Audience laugh>>
- Oooh, where's me washboard?
<<Extended laughter>>
- ere, you know, I was on a cruise - now, stop it. Stop it. - And I suddenly came over all posh. - settle down you lot - it was my tickets see - they had Port Out Starboard Home
<<Uproarious laughter, applause, three heart attacks, four strokes and twenty-seven attacks of hysterics>>

[darmstadt]

The first incident of sexual harassment at work is now recognised to have
been the constant depredations Mary Queen of Scots made on her secretary
Rizzio. She would often keep him working late and embarrass him by making
leading comments in French.