'First Date'
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IIRC, there were only two Birds of Prey episodes filmed but not broadcast when the axe fell. The WB broadcast those two episodes back-to-back as a Special Two Hour Birds of Prey Special Event a few weeks later (did I mention that it was Special?).
t edit Just double-checked with an on-line episode guide. All thirteen were definitely broadcast in the US.
So an English guy called me an anorak last week. Was he implying anything more insulting than I'm just a big old geek. (It was because of my frightening knowledge of cheesy music.)
Ummm, so he meant something above and beyond your being a hooded jacket that keeps you warm in windy weather?
Or is it one of those funny things, like how in my family if you are a complete fool we call you a "drinkbox"?
It's British slang for geek, Nutty.
Apparently the term is now used to describe geeks, and people with a head load of facts. The way he described it was that people like trainspotters wear anoraks, so by implication, people with a mindful of useless facts are called anoraks.
Question: Do Scots say "uni" for university?
So an English guy called me an anorak last week. Was he implying anything more insulting than I'm just a big old geek. (It was because of my frightening knowledge of cheesy music.)
It's not just brit-slang for geek, it also connotes a particular kind of trainspotting music geek.
Okay, this has bugged me for a while now.
What exactly is trainspotting? After watching the movie, I would have expected it to mean doing a lot of heroin.
What exactly is trainspotting?
It's watching trains go by and noting it in your little train book, and when they are early or late and what kind of cars they were carrying etc. It is, in short, brit shorthand for geeky, nerdy behavior - often to do with super trivial bits of information. We are all a bit trainspotters here when we can cite continuity errors in Buffy by chapter and verse.
What exactly is trainspotting? After watching the movie, I would have expected it to mean doing a lot of heroin.
Trainspotting, originally, is just as the name suggests - a hobby of hanging around near tracks and recording which trains you see. One site informs me that it came to mean shooting up because of a railway yard in Leith commonly used by heroin addicts. Thanks to the location, the local joke had it that they were trainspotting.