[Groop] Fwd: In the Mail!!!!

[Ryan Simmons]

Yeah...thanks tone.  I know about Three's Company.  But I didn't think a
non-central character in an old American TV series had such an impact on
British slang.

:P


On 7/15/07, Tone <Tone at moon-shine.net> wrote:
>
>  Ryan,
>
>             Larry is the sleazy neighbor from the TV series "Three's
> Company," who was also Jack's friend. Now, if you are wondering who Jack is,
> well he was the straight culinary student, who was posing as a gay man in
> order to be room mates with Janet and Chrissy. At the moment I will not
> explain who Janet and Chrissy were, but I will say many guys would probably
> pretend to be gay to be their room mates. Regardless, perhaps in reality
> Larry was the gay man and secretly in the closest, thus acting sleazy as a
> cover. If that was case, then I can see how some people in the UK could
> misunderstand him being gay by taking the word literally… thus birthing the
> expression, "Happy as Larry."
>
>             It is all quite perfectly logical. Gotta love those Brits! ;)
>
> _*TONE*_
>
>
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