Because it's funni!
They meant CARP, and being foolish simple folks that don't speak the language of the English, they wrote CRAP, which means 'poo' in the coarse words of the coalminer.
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Mr Gear the gay-maker,
Tue 11 Sep 2007, 21:52,
archived)
Good heavens -
really? Do you think so?
Gosh.
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Ptolemy the man with the silent pea,
Tue 11 Sep 2007, 21:54,
archived)