tosspot

DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com
Fri Oct 29 07:36:50 PDT 1999


All you British-speakers out there: what's a tosspot (a word that figures prominently in the Momus song I was just listening to)?

Doug

---------------------------------------------------------- Hmm, he thought, I need to be careful how I phrase this, for the censorbot was close to its limits for the week. Already, it was glowing red and giving off an entirely unwholesome smell. . . .

Well, a "toss" is one of those things which kelley is always accusing economists of having in the privacy of their own bedrooms, or under the desk at _semin_ars.

the "pot" would be a small receptacle used by the Victorians to capture the residue left by a "toss" for future medical examination, or for the artificial insemination of lesbian friends. (I may have a few of the details wrong here)

A "tosspot" would be a fearful fellow, a bounder, a git of the highest water. So one might say: "That Ricky Martin/Alan Greenspan/Daniel Davies, eh!? What a blooming tosspot!"

cheers

dd

BTW I screwed up another post, sending it to owner-lbo-talk again. This isn't a cunning way to get around the limit -- it's a "feature" of Lotus Notes.

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