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- From: ccsdhd@sunlab1.bath.ac.uk (Dennis Davis)
- Newsgroups: misc.fitness,rec.bicycles.misc,rec.running
- Subject: Re: Metabolic Rate question
- Message-ID: <C1GMsJ.7BF@sunlab1.bath.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 12:02:43 GMT
- References: <C147ow.K35@csn.org> <1993Jan20.155225.24912@walter.bellcore.com> <1993Jan21.001107.61147@watson.ibm.com> <1993Jan21.160624.23502@walter.bellcore.com>
- Organization: Bath University Computing Services, UK
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- In the referenced article, kenl@origami.cc.bellcore.com (Ken Lehner) writes:
- >I saw an interview with the members of the music group "Right Said Fred"
- >("I'm Too Sexy"), in which one member described the girlfriend of the
- >other member as "the town bike". Referring to the fact that everyone
- >had ridden her...
-
- In his amusing book "A Word in Your Ear", Philip Howard devotes a few
- pages to such expressions. Other bicycle-derived slang expressions,
- such as the French expression "Il a perdu ses pedales" which indicates
- someone who isn't quite the full ticket, are included.
-
- I've certainly heard this expression being used, although not
- recently. Eric Partridge ("Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional
- English") suggests it is Australian slang dating from the 1920's.
- Howard has a private communication indicating its use in a
- Gloucestershire court in the 1930's. The exact source of the
- expression is probably almost impossible to discern.
-
- >Nothing to do with THIS thread, of course.
-
- ... but probably the most appropriate Newsgroup. If, for example,
- it (and this) had been posted to rec.bicycles.tech, they would want to
- argue over the type and technical merits of the pedals forgotten by the
- Frenchman. I'd plump for Cinelli M71's for no other reason than they
- are obsolete and I've only ever seen one pair of them ...
- --
- Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
- D.H.Davis@bath.ac.uk
-