[Groop] OT: happy as....

[Promethea]

Thanks for that - the three's company reference didn't really 'ring true.'

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From: groop-bounces at groo.com [mailto:groop-bounces at groo.com] On Behalf Of
Mark Lisa & Jamie
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 3:41 PM
To: Groop at Groo.Com
Subject: [Groop] OT: happy as....


Might be quite a bit earlier methinks !


http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-lar1.htm








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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!!!!

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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