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- From: mcbean@vax.oxford.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: rec.music.reggae
- Subject: Re: Reggae terms
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.150406.11009@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 15:04:06 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.151453.4877@nosc.mil> <ljefptINN285@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> <Bzo5xG.Kz7@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec23.041433.10300@wes.on.ca>
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- In article <1992Dec23.041433.10300@wes.on.ca>, tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen) writes:
- > jim@coral.aiss.uiuc.edu writes:
- >> Ok here is one that we get a good laugh at:
- >>
- >> From the Wailing Souls cd.........Picky Picky Head....... what does this
- >> mean ?
- >
- > "Picky picky head" would be a brushcut, from prickly hair and using the
- > Jamaican superlative (like "big big"). [Hey, my wife is an expert on
- > these things... :) ]
-
- Def. - An expert is a person far from home with a brief case.
-
- Picky, picky, here does not refer to prickly hair (the only ting I know of with
- prickly hair would be a porcupine!). It refers to the hair type most commonly
- found on Africans/people of African descent.
-
- McBean.
-
- >
- > [ \tom haapanen "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capone ]
- > [ tomh@wes.on.ca "trust the programmer" -- ansi c standard ]
- > [ waterloo engineering software "to thine own self be true" -- polonius ]
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