ex Bull Dog wrote:
Eh? Explain your puerile reponse
Sigh.....let's do it again....
ex Bull Dog wrote:
Efan Ekoku
Language Timothy
are we sitting comfortably?
Back in the day when swearing wasn't as widely accepted as it is by this current generation, people would try to emphasise their displeasure by swearing, without actually swearing.
One of the ways to do this, was for example in the case of the phrase "fu**ing"
the phrase "fu**ing"was often replaced with "effing"......so "fu**ing hell" became "effing hell".
Efan (pronounced EFFAN) can be mistaken for Effing...especially if you are from south of Watford and the "g" becomes optional...as in effin'.
In the early 80;s their was a situation comedy called "Sorry" featuring British Comedic Stalwart, Ronnie Corbett as Timothy Lumsden, a 41 year old living at home with his parents. If ever this man used a phrase to express his frustration, his father would often mishear this and thinking his son had sworn, would say
'Language Timothy"
Along the lines of many British Situation Comedy programmes of that era, it was kept going for at least 2 seasons too many but this was to ensure that its star, Corbett, was contracted to the BBC and couldn't work for ITV.
So, Efan could be misheard as Effing (effin' in the south) and therefore heard as swearing, which to someone over the age of 30 would illicit a response of "Language Timothy"
I bet you are so effing glad you asked now
