<div><br>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.</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Lisa & Jamie</b> <<a href="mailto:brownhome@blueyonder.co.uk">brownhome@blueyonder.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Might be quite a bit earlier methinks !<br><br><br><a href="http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-lar1.htm">
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-lar1.htm</a><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:groop-bounces@groo.com">groop-bounces@groo.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:groop-bounces@groo.com">
groop-bounces@groo.com</a>] On Behalf Of<br>Dana Gabbard<br>Sent: 16 July 2007 17:57<br>To: <a href="mailto:Groop@groo.com">Groop@groo.com</a><br>Subject: Re: [Groop] Fwd: In the Mail!!!!<br><br>Three's Company was based on a British program, A Man About the House
<br>(several famous American shows had similar origins). So it started there.<br><br>>From: "Ryan Simmons" <<a href="mailto:ryan.gsimmons@gmail.com">ryan.gsimmons@gmail.com</a>><br>>To: <a href="mailto:Groop@groo.com">
Groop@groo.com</a><br>>Subject: Re: [Groop] Fwd: In the Mail!!!!<br>>Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:17:10 -0500<br>><br>>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>><br>>:P<br>><br>><br>>On 7/15/07, Tone <<a href="mailto:Tone@moon-shine.net">Tone@moon-shine.net</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> Ryan,<br>>><br>>> 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<br>>>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<br>>>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<br>>>the<br>>>expression, "Happy as Larry."
<br>>><br>>> It is all quite perfectly logical. Gotta love those Brits! ;)<br>>><br>>>_*TONE*_<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>>_______________________________________________
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