Declan Murphy wrote:
> Kevin Wayne Williams wrote:
>> necoandjeff wrote:
>> 
>>> Kevin Wayne Williams wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Paul Blay wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> "Musashi" wrote in evul printable ...
>>>>> 
>>>>>> "Declan Murphy" <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote ...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> [what does "get bent" mean" trimmed due to massive quotation
>>>>>>> level failure]
>>>> 
>>>>>> I had always assumed it was British slang. Something close to
>>>>>> "piss off". I guess I was wrong?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I don't know whether it is /British slang/ but I'm pretty sure
>>>>> it's slang in Britain.
>>>>> I suppose it just depends on what stone Declan's been living under
>>>>> ...
>>>> 
>>>> Reasonably common Merkingo as well. I think of it as having a
>>>> British origin, but I have absolutely no facts to back up that
>>>> belief. 
>> 
>>> Really? I've never heard it before.
>> 
>> Do you buy your rocks the same place as Declan does?
> 
> Possibly. I only heard "gone postal" for the first time a few weeks
> ago. 

Wow. Now that is a fairly common merikanism.