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From: kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: translation wanted from MontyPythonEnglish to American English
Message-ID: <457@snow.warwick.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 29-Mar-86 15:22:41 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 29 15:22:41 1986
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Reply-To: kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker)
Organization: Computer Science, Warwick University, UK
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Keywords: "MP's Last Record",Dr Carl Gruber,embarassment course

In article <197@lll-lcc.UUcp> bandy@lll-lcc.UUCP (Andrew Scott Beals) writes:
>On "Monty Python's Last Record" on the first side, there is a
>"course" that is designed to help you overcome being embarassed
>easily ("It's all part of growing up and being British.").

"Previous Record", I believe.

>I'm interested in the word "grunties". What does it mean? It is in 
>this word group: "Shoe. Megaphone. Grunties." (the narrator is
>reading it and you're supposed to gauge your embarassment response)

I've done a little research on this: two of my friends stated that (to them)
"grunties" meant "underwear".  More specifically, those items of apparel which
frequently cover the nether regions of men; those which we in England refer
to as "pants", though I believe this word has rather different connotations
in the USA.

I myself have not heard this word used (except in the sketch, and by my
friends); for the record, my friends are (and I hope they will forgive this
off-the-cuff categorisation)  white, male, of English extraction, in their
early twenties, middle-class, and from the South of England.

							Kay.
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