Re: It sucks!

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 12:58:02 -0400 Roger Mills <romilly@...> writes:
> Ethnic slurs like that can be rather interesting.  I believe the
> French
> refer to "the English vice"; in return the English get "the French
> pox".
> I'm not sure how common these are in British Engl., but we have a
> number of
> phrases (all somewhat derogatory) involving the Dutch:  Dutch treat,
> Dutch
> uncle, Dutch wife.   I (and my childhood source) seem to be the only
> person
> who's heard Dutch f*ck as in "gimme a D. f."-- to light one's
> cigarette from
> someone else's. (A later, more generic version, goes "Put your hot
> one on my
> cold one and make my cold one hot".)
-

I've never heard of any of these...
Although, i remember reading (not hearing) the expression "going Dutch"
to mean "when a couple on a date shares paying instead of one of them
paying for both".


-Stephen (Steg)
 "what did you see to make you think that your blood is redder?"

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