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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><I>I </I>thought he meant Larry Steller!<BR>
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on 7/15/07 7:17 PM, Ryan Simmons at ryan.gsimmons@gmail.com wrote:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000098">> Yeah...thanks tone. I know about Three's Company. But I didn't think a<BR>
> non-central character in an old American TV series had such an impact on<BR>
> British slang.<BR>
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> On 7/15/07, Tone <Tone@moon-shine.net> wrote:<BR>
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>> Ryan,<BR>
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>> Larry is the sleazy neighbor from the TV series "Three's<BR>
>> Company," who was also Jack's friend. Now, if you are wondering who Jack is,<BR>
>> well he was the straight culinary student, who was posing as a gay man in<BR>
>> order to be room mates with Janet and Chrissy. At the moment I will not<BR>
>> explain who Janet and Chrissy were, but I will say many guys would probably<BR>
>> pretend to be gay to be their room mates. Regardless, perhaps in reality<BR>
>> Larry was the gay man and secretly in the closest, thus acting sleazy as a<BR>
>> cover. If that was case, then I can see how some people in the UK could<BR>
>> misunderstand him being gay by taking the word literally… thus birthing the<BR>
>> expression, "Happy as Larry."<BR>
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>> It is all quite perfectly logical. Gotta love those Brits! ;)<BR>
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>> _*TONE*_<BR>
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