<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Thanks you all for the explanations :)</span></div><div><span>Still got much English to learn... time to time <br></span></div><div><span>Best regards and good weekend you folks</span></div><div><span>Antonio<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">De:</span></b> "alex.layfield@sky.com" <alex.layfield@sky.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Para:</span></b> Kent Linux User Group - General Topics <kent@mailman.lug.org.uk> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Enviado:</span></b> Sábado 14 de abril de 2012 12:52<br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Asunto:</span></b> Re: [Klug-general] Virtual Servers<br> </font> </div> <br>"Box deluxe", I think is the etymological idea for balls...<br><br>Closely related to:<br><br>"Box Standard" aka<br>"Bog Standard"<br><br>From Hamley's Toy Store, I believe...<br><br>circa... 1935?<br><br>Monopoly...?<br><br><br>/A<br>Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Mike Evans <<a ymailto="mailto:mike@tandem.f9.co.uk" href="mailto:mike@tandem.f9.co.uk">mike@tandem.f9.co.uk</a>><br>Sender: <a ymailto="mailto:kent-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk" href="mailto:kent-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk">kent-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:39:48 <br>To: Antonio Mendoza Mendoza<<a ymailto="mailto:agmendozam@yahoo.es" href="mailto:agmendozam@yahoo.es">agmendozam@yahoo.es</a>>; Kent Linux User Group - General Topics<<a ymailto="mailto:kent@mailman.lug.org.uk"
href="mailto:kent@mailman.lug.org.uk">kent@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>><br>Reply-To: Kent Linux User Group - General Topics <<a ymailto="mailto:kent@mailman.lug.org.uk" href="mailto:kent@mailman.lug.org.uk">kent@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Virtual Servers<br>For non-native English speakers:<br><br> "It's the bees knees"<br><br>An expression meaning "It's the best, it's exactly the thing you want" <br>probably a word play on "It's the business".<br><br> "It's the dog's bollocks"<br><br>Is another phrase meaning the same thing and probably originated as a <br>street slang version of the first. These days "The mutt's nuts" is also <br>equivalent.<br><br>Finally we have the expression:<br><br> "That cuts the mustard"<br><br>Yet another, and much older, way of saying more or less the same thing, <br>and also of obscure origin. Possibly originating in the need for a <br>particularly sharp blade
to cut mustard seed, which is like little <br>ball-bearings, or mustard plants, which are tough and string-like.<br><br>Mow you're equipped with your basic tool kit of English phrases meaning <br>"It's exactly what you want". What Colin appears to have done is taken <br>all three and put them in the blender. The result was a phrase which <br>just about any UK or US native English speaker would understand <br>immediately and probably cause a smile. Meanwhile the rest of the <br>English speaking world sees a chasm of doom and misunderstanding opening <br>before them.<br><br>So you see it is possible to combine bollocks, knees and mustard and end <br>up with something that sounds painful but is exactly what you want. <br>Whatever turns you on I guess.<br><br>Mike<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Kent mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk"
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