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

[Chris Schechner]

I thought he meant Larry Steller!


on 7/15/07 7:17 PM, Ryan Simmons at ryan.gsimmons at gmail.com wrote:

> 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 literallyŠ thus birthing the
>> expression, "Happy as Larry."
>> 
>>             It is all quite perfectly logical. Gotta love those Brits! ;)
>> 
>> _*TONE*_
>> 
>> 
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