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Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.

Thanks to simbosan for the idea

(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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"and I claim my five pounds"

Apparently a phrase originating from a fictional character in an antique newspaper I just cannot fathom how this has come into use today.

I've even heard people use the phrase in conversation. Seriously? It is the most cumbersome thing you could put into a sentence. Could you not just say, "You are *person*"?

Freaking nerds...
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 11:00, 5 replies)
It came from Viz aicmfp

(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 11:27, closed)
Its ancient
and was about in the middle of the last century.

A person would walk around various seaside resorts, and if you went upto him carrying a certain daily newspaper, and said "you are such and such, and I claim my five pounds." You got the money.
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 11:41, closed)
It actually started in the sun.
I think the character was Chalky White who would appear on a city's streets accompanied by buxom wenches. The idea was you would approach him and say "You are Chalky White and I claim my five pounds." If correct you received your moolah.

It is now used as a comedy device to indicate an ironic assessment of someone's nature or a reflection of their behaviour by simile.

Mindpiss. Love the use of last century though. Gives it gravitas.
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 11:42, closed)
Close, it was the Westminster Gazette and the character was Lobby Lud
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobby_Lud
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 11:51, closed)
You're on b3ta complaining about nerds?
eh?
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 12:39, closed)

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