Or "Pink Teletubby."
--- Richard Harris <rhh1 at clara.co.uk> wrote:
> From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com>
> >
> > > I've been told by a friend of Hitchens that,
> "Wide Boy, " that was
> > > his retort back to GG, is Brit slang for gay.
>
> Hitchens should stick with terms that US viewers
> understand. He could, for
> instance, have called Galloway "SpongeBob
> SquarePants."
>
> ____________________________________________
> I guess the remark was aimed at Galloway, not 'US
> viewers'.
>
> By the way, don't assume Hitchens was gracious by
> design in his report in
> the London Daily Mirror. As the Mirror has been a
> leading anti-war paper,
> Hitch would have had no chance selling them an
> article that was anything but
> chirpily pleasant about the East End hero (hence
> 'wide boy', a working class
> lad who has done well in London - must be East
> London, the working class
> zone - but who is, under the appearance of
> respectability, not at all
> straightforward or legitimate in his dealings.
>
> Richard
>
>
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