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Where is that thread that defines the slang employed here?

I need to print it out. When I read about kool-aid and elmo I am still confused. image
"It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's simply that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody." - Brendan Behan


Proud Participant in Operation "Stone Holey" August 7, 2008

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  • mozeppamozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭
    dang!

    for a second i thought you were refering to the "great un-washed masses"image
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Are you talkin' about ME??? imageimage Cheers, RickO
  • The great unwashed masses I get. Escpecially since I am one of them. image
    "It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's simply that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody." - Brendan Behan


    Proud Participant in Operation "Stone Holey" August 7, 2008
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,630 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I need to print it out. When I read about kool-aid and elmo I am still confused. image >>



    Smoe one will gin up a list.......
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    Always took candy from strangers
    Didn't wanna get me no trade
    Never want to be like papa
    Working for the boss every night and day
    --"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
  • Thanks. However I am still lost as to elmo's relation to coins. I have seen "elmobay" etcetera, but wondered if there was more to it. image
    "It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's simply that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody." - Brendan Behan


    Proud Participant in Operation "Stone Holey" August 7, 2008

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