But he said it on the news...OMG. Like hearing it from your favorite teacher.

I had that same reaction last night, when he and Rachel Maddow were saying that something "really sucked." It's not a word that normally pings my radar, but hearing it on a news show is rather strange!

So what are fanny packs called in England?

And, no, I don't mean what the snickerers are thinking. Which I'm now thinking. And snickering about.

I've heard "bum bag", but I also get the impression that the packs themselves are way more common in the US, so it may not be used that much at all.

fanny packs

I've heard bum bag...which has its own connotations. It's a seesaw of snicker worthy references.

eta: jeepers, I'm a xposting fiend today!

The first time I heard "bullshit" on NYPD Blue, I almost jumped out of my seat.

OK, this is impressive

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And it's not Photoshopped!

So what are fanny packs called in England?

Wait...is it bum packs??

The whole "they call them < snicker > fanny packs" in America is a great great awesome moment in the UK Office.

I wonder if fanny packs didn't make the transition to GB because no marketing person was willing to face the task of coming up with a name that drew no snickers.

This makes FANNY HILL a REALLY appropriate name.

Yeah, I got stuck on Fanny Hill/Mons Venus equivalence back when I was too young not to be literal.

Panic is setting in.

I just scrapped all but two paragraphs of the second main section of the thesis. This means, the precious 4-5 pages I've bled out the last couple of weeks are gone, and I'm starting over with a new concept statement at the end of the intro to the section.

This needed to happen and is one of the reasons so little has gotten written. It was crap, and today I got confirmation that it was uninteresting and crap. I've been saying for weeks that it read like a 2nd grade book report, but no one believed me. Then someone actually read it, and, well, I was right.