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# Having met
Banana, I have to say, apart from being gorgeous, she is the sort of person to call it rugger.
(I helped save b3ta! bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:18, archived)
# jolly good
there's not enough posh people about these days.
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:19, archived)
# She is
posh totty.

*awaits retribution*
(I helped save b3ta! bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:20, archived)
# If you'd been here
you'd be due a spanking young chap

/plays up to posh remark.

Anyway, isn't it Port Out, Starboard Home. What does that mean?
(I helped save b3ta! Banana, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:21, archived)
# Its a sailing term,
and its do with with where all the rich people sat when they went on there cruises. They sat on the port side sailing out, and the Starboard side going home.

Ooh, A spanking! A spanking!
(I helped save b3ta! bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:23, archived)
# It relates specifically
to Atlantic crossings. The richest passangers swapped sides on the outward and return journeys so that their rooms always face south, and therefore the sun.

100% FACT!*

*actual fact percentage may vary

*edit* Looks like D'bird's got me there.
(I helped save b3ta! supermoore: HUNG, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:25, archived)
# I'm still right,
but you're more detailed.
(I helped save b3ta! bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:26, archived)
# but according to my sauces
it's all a miff
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:27, archived)
# And after the spanking.....
..... the oral sex...
(I helped save b3ta! Mr. Sheep Fat Squelchy Goodness, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:25, archived)
# Trips to India I think
Meant you always got the shaded side, which was preferable.

I contest your role as the poshest b3tan.
(WouldSwapABearForATiger, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:24, archived)
# Yay! My Pa works for P&O
phrases.shu.ac.uk/meanings/287800.html



This is supposed to be the legend printed on tickets of passengers on P&O (Peninsula and Orient) passenger vessels when travelling between UK and India in the days of the Raj. Britain and India are both in the northern hemisphere so the port (left-hand side) berths were mostly in the shade when travelling out (easterly) and the starboard ones when coming back. So the best and most expensive berths were POSH, hence the term. A very plausible and attractive explanation, but this does appear to be an idea that was dreamed up retrospectively to match an existing meaning. P&O say they have never issued such tickets and, although many tickets from that era still exist, no 'POSH' ones have been found. Numerous letters and literary works also remain from the British Raj but nothing has been found which confirms the word being used in that context. The word doesn't seem to have been used in print before a Punch cartoon dated 1918. The term was used from the mid 19th century to mean a dandy and that is the more likely derivation for the current meaning.
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:24, archived)
# i'm glad you didn't use snopes
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:25, archived)
# I reckon snopes have passed on our names
Wendy at the White House is looking at my website now as well!
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:26, archived)
# is she?
blimey, we're being watched...
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:29, archived)
# sounds interesting.
Who is wendy?
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Nick Riviera, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:31, archived)
# in my logfiles
i get some sort of ID registered at "something-thewestwing-somebody's name" it's rather disconcerting
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:47, archived)
# A bloke in civilian captain's uniform is getting out of a Rolls-Royce next to a supermarket.
...just as someone is coming back to his car.

"How'd you afford that thing, eh?"

"I work for Cunard."

"Well, I work my bollocks off, but I can't afford a Rolls."
(Astatine, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:28, archived)
# I like this.
(WouldSwapABearForATiger, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:29, archived)
# arf!
(I helped save b3ta! PeterSeychelles, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:30, archived)
# Hahahahahahaha
...I think I get it...
(I helped save b3ta! Herr Tezcat, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:31, archived)
# Hee Hee
Heeeeeee!!!!
(Bob Hopelessness, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:39, archived)
# Cruise ships
sailing out on the atlantic to America. POSH people had the port cabins so that they got the sun during the day (cos south is on the portside). Coming back the boat'd be facing the opposite direction and so the sun would be on the starboard side.

(At least that's what How2 told me).
(I helped save b3ta! Ijon Tichy, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:25, archived)
# i'm afraid that fred dineage is a liar and a fraud
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:26, archived)
# Perhaps.........
www.lovatts.com.au/trivia/wordsandphrases/trivia_wp40_posh.htm
(I helped save b3ta! Lord_Floaty Hooting gladly., Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:28, archived)
# yup checked
her profile definatly totty :D
(I helped save b3ta! Plomien is Polish for flame, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:24, archived)
# Thank you
and raaah!
(I helped save b3ta! Banana, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:20, archived)
# I bet
you do call it rugger don't you.
(I helped save b3ta! bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:21, archived)
# You're trying to rile me
aren't you.

(I helped save b3ta! Banana, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:22, archived)
# No,
its more like sarcastic prodding.
Do you own an alice band?
(I helped save b3ta! bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:24, archived)
# Used to.
Nothing wrong with being posh anyway.

I can pretend to be rich and such like.

I'd watch it if I were you, I might start drawing conclusions about your proximity to Brighton.
(I helped save b3ta! Banana, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:31, archived)
# I live in Horsham
its voted conservative for as long as I can remember.
I apologise.
(I helped save b3ta! bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:37, archived)
# He's trying to give you a
good riling
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:25, archived)
# Rile her
HARD!
(I helped save b3ta! bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:27, archived)