If you'd been hereyou'd be due a spanking young chap
/plays up to posh remark.
Anyway, isn't it Port Out, Starboard Home. What does that mean?
(/plays up to posh remark.
Anyway, isn't it Port Out, Starboard Home. What does that mean?
Banana,
Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:21,
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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!
(Ooh, A spanking! A spanking!
bovine I'm so old, even my old is old,
Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:23,
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It relates specificallyto 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.
(100% FACT!*
*actual fact percentage may vary
*edit* Looks like D'bird's got me there.
supermoore: HUNG,
Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:25,
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I'm still right,but you're more detailed.
( bovine I'm so old, even my old is old,
Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:26,
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And after the spanking.......... the oral sex...
( Mr. Sheep Fat Squelchy Goodness,
Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:25,
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Trips to India I thinkMeant you always got the shaded side, which was preferable.
I contest your role as the poshest b3tan.
(,
Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:24,
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I contest your role as the poshest b3tan.
Yay! My Pa works for P&Ophrases.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.
(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.
butchbint,
Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:24,
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I reckon snopes have passed on our namesWendy at the White House is looking at my website now as well!
( butchbint,
Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:26,
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in my logfilesi get some sort of ID registered at "something-thewestwing-somebody's name" it's rather disconcerting
( new_matt,
Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:47,
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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."
(,
Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:28,
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"How'd you afford that thing, eh?"
"I work for Cunard."
"Well, I work my bollocks off, but I can't afford a Rolls."
Cruise shipssailing 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).
((At least that's what How2 told me).
Ijon Tichy,
Mon 17 Nov 2003, 14:25,
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