Actually, Sweet F.A derives from the girl of the name Fanny Adams ( this is a true story folks). She was horribly murdered, cut upp into small pieces and thrown into a lake. Sailors around these times used to receive tins of mutton as their food rations. These tins didn't contain very much meat in them, and it was in tiny little bits. So as lads like to do, they made jokes about it, referring to the sweet meat in their tins as being like Fanny Adams and thus Sweet Fanny Adams began to refer to pretty much nothing, which led to sweet fuck all. phew, so that is why I study linguistics. So I can enlighten the world with the origin of common phrases. anybody want to know where c*** comes from? OH, to tape tree organisers, My mail address has changed so it is no longer timminsc@tcd. ie, but coool_air@hotmail.com Ta folks, Claire
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 17:16:17 -0700 (PDT) From: N Leggatt <leggattn@ucs.orst.edu> To: sinister@majordomo.net Subject: Re: Sinister: Sweet FA Reply-To: N Leggatt <leggattn@ucs.orst.edu>
why only brits? sweet fuck all.
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"So many things we never will undo I know you're sorry, I'm sorry too Some people will offer you their hand and some won't Last night I knew you, tonight I don't"
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