[Osx-nutters] "As mad as cheese"

[Mark Smith]

On 31 Oct 2006, at 17:12, Google Kreme wrote:

> On 31 Oct 2006, at 07:31 , Cyril wrote:
>> On 31 oct. 06, at 15:18, Google Kreme wrote:
>>> OK, there are some "British-isms" that I use on a daily or near- 
>>> daily basis.
>>>
>>> Pear Shaped might be my favorite, and I am waging a one man  
>>> campaign to force it into the daily lexicon of the US.
>> uhm… maybe what I'm about to write will say too much about my mind- 
>> set, but hey. Are you talking daily about breasts? I mean, that,  
>> or the general figure of a lady is pretty much all I can think of  
>> being pear-shaped.
>
> Nope, not even close.  Quite close to as far opposite as you can get.

Actually.

Cyril is correct.

In this context "Pear-shaped" became (again) the fashionable  
description of a type of female body shape characterized by a  
comparatively narrow thorax (and implicitly small breasts) and  
excessively wide hips and thighs (and implicitly a fat arse). This is  
the origin of the more recently used British English usage, such as  
in the term: "Its all gone pear-shaped" in which one is describing  
the descent of an endevour into disaster, chaos etc. The metaphor  
plays upon the (at the time at which it became trendy) propagandized  
truism that being pear-shaped is a complete disaster for a woman.

Mark.


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