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Shuggy:

--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 13, 2006, 07:57:16 pm ---"Queer as folk" strikes me as a particularly British expression (what the heck does it mean, anyway?  ;D ).

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There's a proverb, "There's owt so queer as folk," meaning "There's nothing as strange as people." You say it when someone's done something inexplicable, usually in a Yorkshire accent: "There's owt so kware as fawk*". In the UK the show's title is also a play on "queer as fuck" as in "homosexual as anything".

*I can't quite put the vowel into print, it's somewhere between the aw of walk, the o of folk and the oh of fog (but not your American fahg).

Kelda:

--- Quote from: kelda_shelton on December 13, 2006, 09:22:47 am ---As far as I'm aware Matt Lucas is not as all fem/queeny in real life. (And his TV producer boyfriend Kevin McGee is a bit of a hunk!)

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CONGRATULATIONS to Matt and Kevin who got married yesterday - and had a panto themed wedding reception!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6188161.stm



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