BBC/AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT

I was watching an old Monty Python episode....and they had their usual reference to the BBC

nowadays you can get in trouble making reference to BBC

which made me think of how in a short time words/abbreviations have changed meaning

what about college and highschool football teams call "the cougars".....i guess the goal of the opposing team is to pound them into submission.....and as far as the other meaning....I guess the same goal exists

and in my field in the 70's there was a diet candy called 'ayds",,,,,,Close enough in the name to taken off shelves...talk about bad luck...imagine having a product that ends up being the name of a horrible disease. Imagine calling up the pharmacy and asking "do you have ayds"?

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what about college and highschool football teams call "the cougars".....i guess the goal of the opposing team is to pound them into submission.....and as far as the other meaning....I guess the same goal exists

LOL yes the cougars must be tamed.

What did BBC refer?
I remember the diet aid from back then and as a kid was confused by it.

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What did BBC refer?
I remember the diet aid from back then and as a kid was confused by it.

"big black (thing that hangs between a mans legs and that makes him think, reason and understand) :)

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What did BBC refer?
I remember the diet aid from back then and as a kid was confused by it.

well let me put it this way, if you hear your young daughter on the phone saying that she cant get enough of the BBC......ask her about Upstairs Downstairs.....if she doesnt have a clue......you can start to worry

That's why kids text now LOL

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which made me think of how in a short time words/abbreviations have changed meaning

This would be grist for DT.

Think how the use of the word gay has changed or the phrase "lord and master" or "better half". Consider Harry Belafonte's great hit Jamaica Farewell. Would it have been so popular if "where the nights are gay" had meant something else?

PC used to mean Police Constable before Personal Computer or Politically Correct and for some Professional Corporation.

Gat has gone out of style for sure. Likely has come to mean probable rather than likeable. Few use the word possibles any more, unless they sell a Possibles Bag for some outrageous price in a Western tack shop website.

The term "broad" is very much in disuse. "Ball and Chain" for marriage is not "PC".
The phrase "to serve" now usually means the exact opposite in the ghetto/cop-talk world.

On the promise is more English usage but its falling out of favor for more explicit phrases.

PC on a 1930's California license plate meant the car had pneumatic tires. Or so Mike once told me !

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This would be grist for DT.

Think how the use of the word gay has changed or the phrase "lord and master" or "better half".

PC used to mean Police Constable before Personal Computer or Politically Correct and for some Professional Corporation.

Gat has gone out of style for sure. Likely has come to mean probable rather than likeable. Few use the word possibles any more, unless they sell a Possibles Bag for some outrageous price in a Western tack shop website.

The term "broad" is very much in disuse. "Ball and Chain" for marriage is not "PC".
The phrase "to serve" now usually means the exact opposite in the ghetto/cop-talk world.

On the promise is more English usage but its falling out of favor for more explicit phrases.

I would say up until the 2000's using the term "gay" was to say something was lame, or sucks. Now you can't say anything is gay, because it could offend people.

I'm falling out of touch with new phrases. I didn't even know what a "selfie" was until a couple of weeks ago when I saw a yearly wrap up show on TV. Same goes for the term "BFF".