"pig" as policeman

Darryl Francis darrylfrancis at YAHOO.CO.UK
Thu Aug 10 18:04:21 UTC 2006


WAG?

In Britain, WAGs are the wives and girlfriends of famous football
players.


--- Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
> I wasn't making up the notion that the 20th century began with the
> assassination of Archduke Ferdinand; I don't know if others have
> claimed that the 21st began on 9/11/01, that was just a WAG.



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