Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Why December 31st? Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 14:20:57 +0900 Lines: 20 Message-ID: <41B68F39.3010102@hotmail.com> References: <31igvgF3bn4j7U1@individual.net> <41B4167A.4050103@hotmail.com> <31k7ouF3ba9ufU4@individual.net> <41B5208F.2090300@hotmail.com> <31klheF3b84ltU1@individual.net> <41B521D3.8090702@hotmail.com> <31kp8mF3dg8k8U4@individual.net> <41B555C0.4060403@hotmail.com> <31li51F3d6kduU1@individual.net> <41B5BC84.6060601@hotmail.com> <31mq34F3cjrlhU1@individual.net> <41B685A4.3010504@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net HaYuM6r9oDWsV0BJMuVbFwj7Sb6BeSnMiz1yzACwDuCr1GSrrC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:23379 Paul Blay wrote: > "Declan Murphy" wrote ... > >> I don't understand what the phrase "how much you bench" means anyway. >> Like "going postal" and "get bent", I assume its just another >> merkinism I'm not familiar with. > > If every phrase you don't know is an merkinism - what about "many a > mickle makes a muckle" ? Well that would be an unfamiliar pomgolianism, mate, and I'm not pissing in your pocket or anything regarding the bench thingee above. > As for 'how much you bench' it's a term from gym / weightlifting. There's my linguistic gap then. Never been to a gym. -- Non gratum anus rodentum