OK, so she's a bitca, then. :) And, newsflash, she WAS a foreigner. But I still want that trip, though.

And David, you have a point about the Bridge - did you know it was the first pub the Queen ever went to in like 1985?

I didn't know that. But there is a pennant from my college (Kenyon) behind the bar that's been there since the 50s or 60s.

That's how good it is.

Truly. Bishop's Tipple is one of the best ales I've ever had. Also, it's fun to go sit in the "new room" at the Bridge. That being the one built in the 18th century.

Jim, insent.

And Nilly: Firefly is in the mix somewhere, and you would be very welcome to get the tapes. But they're promised to Australia next, so it may take a while. If you don't mind waiting that long, we could have the best-travelled dateline-hopping jet-setting VHS cassettes around.

If you don't mind waiting that long, we could have the best-travelled dateline hopping jet-setting VHS cassettes around.

Thanks, Fiona! I'd love to get in the line, then. Hey, I'd be willing to wait even if only in order to get the opportunity to say 'the best-travelled dateline hopping jet-setting VHS cassettes around'. But when the option is no "Firefly" at all, which is, indeed, what my fate looked like a few posts ago, waiting is a very small problem indeed.

Did I say already that Buffistas rock? Today, I mean? Because they do.

"Australia" in the mention above, does have two VCRs so dubbage is possible and it shouldn't be that long.

It's already Tuesday here, so it can be my first time of the day of mentioning just how much Buffistas rock. I don't mind waiting, mind you (it's that or never getting it in forever, so any sort of wait is actually my gain). Thanks, everybody!

Someone at work wants to know the meaning of "cup sweet." They say it's an Australian term.

I think they mean "cop it sweet"?

[EDIT: completely wrong answer before. But it did mention the phrase "luck out" so as not to make ita look insane.]

"Cop it sweet" means like "take it on the chin" "suck it up", take it like a man and not complain.

From the merriam webster site:

The 1985 edition of the Harper Dictionary of Contemporary Usage tells us that during World War II, luck out was commonly used in the sense "to meet with bad luck" or "to run out of luck." For example, a soldier who was a casualty of battle would be said to have lucked out. Wentworth & Flexner's Dictionary of American Slang, published in 1960, confirms that that sense of luck out enjoyed "some WWII use, some general use."

But we would bet (and we're feeling pretty lucky today) that when most of us employ luck out, we use the phrase in a much different sense: "to succeed because of good luck." How did this reversal in meaning come about?

According to our records, the meaning never really reversed, and that's the real puzzle. Our evidence shows that when luck was used as a verb during World War II, it was suggestive of good luck, not bad, and we have only a single citation showing luck out in the "bad luck" sense.

By the 1950s, the positive sense of luck out was firmly established in college slang, and the phrase had moved into the general vocabulary by the 1960s. The "bad luck" sense has pretty well died out now.

Thanks, y'all.