On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Aaron Reynolds wrote: WARNING: This explanation is Not Suitable for British School Kids:
> On Friday, February 22, 2002, at 07:59 AM, Paul F. Stregevsky wrote: > > > A year or two ago, a PDMLer for whom English was a second language > > criticized a lens with the epithet, "It's the socks!" > > HAR! I told someone the other day, jokingly, that something was "the > socks", and they looked at me funny...and then, as I was about to > explain myself, I couldn't remember where I had heard the expression. It may be a bowdlerization of "it's the dog's bollocks!", a vulgar English expression equivalent to "it's the bee's knees!" or "it's brilliant!". > THANK YOU. I'll call Vanessa and tell her that I'm not a freak. Jeez, man, you tell her that *after* the wedding. dave -- dave o'brien - http://www.diaspoir.net Oh, so there you are! - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
