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

[Dana Gabbard]

Three's Company was based on a British program, A Man About the House 
(several famous American shows had similar origins). So it started there.

>From: "Ryan Simmons" <ryan.gsimmons at gmail.com>
>To: Groop at groo.com
>Subject: Re: [Groop] Fwd: In the Mail!!!!
>Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:17:10 -0500
>
>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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