[Groop] OT: happy as....

[Ryan Simmons]

Thanks for the link.  My mom used to say "I'm as happy as a dead pig in the
sunshine."  And before anyone asks, I have no idea where that came from.
I'm not even going to google it.


On 7/16/07, Mark Lisa & Jamie <brownhome at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
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> http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-lar1.htm
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: groop-bounces at groo.com [mailto:groop-bounces at groo.com] On Behalf Of
> Dana Gabbard
> Sent: 16 July 2007 17:57
> To: Groop at groo.com
> Subject: Re: [Groop] Fwd: In the Mail!!!!
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> 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.
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> >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
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> >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.
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> >On 7/15/07, Tone <Tone at moon-shine.net> wrote:
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> >>  Ryan,
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> >>             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
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> >>well he was the straight culinary student, who was posing as a gay man
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> >>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
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> >>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
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> >>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."
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> >>             It is all quite perfectly logical. Gotta love those Brits!
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> >>_*TONE*_
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