Re: [Sheflug] Re: American slang

[Richard Stevenson <richard [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, J.White wrote:

> > From: Richard Ibbotson <richard [at] sheflug.co.uk>
> >
> > > Ah... the concast. I used to work across the road at BSM post
> > > graduation.
> >
> > Yes.. I seem to remember my first trip to America where someone
> > explained to me that BS was something to to with body odour and foul
> > language.   Did make me laugh quite a lot.
>
> Guess as the only (?) resident American it falls to me to correct the above.
> BO = Body Odour
> BS = Bull Shit  (that commodity produced in abundance by MS, politicians, etc)

And here I was thinking we were talking about academic qualifications.
One of the guys in my office was telling me, a few months ago:

BS = Bull Shit
MS = More Shit
PhD = Piled Higher and Deeper

I share my office with a guy who holds a PhD...  he didn't laugh :0

Cheers

Richard


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