<div>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.</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tone</b> <<a href="mailto:Tone@moon-shine.net">Tone@moon-shine.net</a>> wrote:</span>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ryan,</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><span> </span>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
</span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">UK</span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> could misunderstand him being gay by taking the word literally… thus birthing the expression, "Happy as Larry."
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><span> </span>It is all quite perfectly logical. Gotta love those Brits! ;)</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">_<i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">TONE</span></i>_</span></font></p>
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