Jet jockey slang/RAF banter

[A. Vine]

Barry A. Popik wrote:
>
> JET JOCKEY SLANG (1950)
>

Reminds me of the Monty Python RAF banter sketch:

"Top-hole.  Bally Jerry, pranged his kite right in the how's-your-father;
hairy blighter, dicky-birded, feathered back on his sammy, took a waspy,
flipped over on his Betty Harpers and caught his can in the Bertie."

http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/python/Scripts/TheBanterSketch


> PEAKED PIQUE (SIC)
>
>     I wrote "wait table (sic)" just so people would know that was in the
> original--it wasn't a typo for "wait tables."  I've made a typo or two.  I've
> also copied a few errors recently ("Windsor" for "Winsor" McCay) without
> adding "sic."
>     My "eye candy" interest had already been "piqued" (aroused) and I wanted
> to say that it was "peaked" (heightened).

Aha!  I knew it was intentional!  Barry rarely misses a trick.
Andrea

P.S.  Do non-software folks use "mouse" as a verb?
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Andrea Vine
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