The Onion on U.K. slang

[Joel S. Berson]

At 11/19/2007 12:12 PM, Gerald Cohen wrote:
>Would someone on the other side of the pond be so kind as to
>translate the slang terms in the item below.

And should I assume the Onion item is a spoof, and the BBC Ten
O'Clock News did not actually say thusly?

Joel

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