"The OTHER Kevin in San Diego" skiddz "AT" adelphia "DOT" net wrote in
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 23:31:15 +0100, "Simon Robbins"
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"The OTHER Kevin in San Diego" skiddz "AT" adelphia "DOT" net wrote in
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OK, Ya lost me there... The only meaning of anorak I'm aware of is
something like a jacket.. I guess you could be inferring I'm
flatulent (i.e a "windbreaker") or I'm taking the wind out of your
sales.. I wish you Brits would speak English... heehhe

Heh-heh... Got to love the subtleties of the English language as spoken
by
the English. Reminds me of when I lived in Canada and my friends would
borrow my UK motorcycle magazines: "I don't get it. They rave about how
good this bike is, then say it's the ********... Doesn't ******** mean
bad?" I gave them the whole treatise on the word and found it's got about
six different meanings, most of which are contextual. But in this case,
you're right: Anorak is a type of jacket. But it's the most unfashionaly
uncool style of jacket you could have. The kind of lightweight thin (often
blue) plastic that folds up into it's own pocket allowing you to carry it
around strapped to your belt for that *really* uncool look. The term's
used
to describe someone who's obsessive about their subject, (often one that
bores everyone else within range, like train spotting.) It's most
commonly
used in jest, to imply someone just knows that little too much. Someone
who
spends all day on their computer (and waffles to anyone who'll listen
about
Linux, or memorises aircraft specifications, or football statistics could
all be called Anoraks.

OK, now that begs the question.. (and shows my apparent ignorance)

WTF is train spotting???

Ahhh, well there you go. Train spotting is an art, only to be undertaken
whilst wearing an anorack and carrying a thermos flask and a plastic
Tupperware box full of cheese sandwiches. And a pickled onion.

It requires GREAT skill and fortitude as it entails spending endless hours
standing (real train spotters never SIT) at the side of a well travelled
railway track (or better still, at a train siding (depot to you blokes),
taking note of the locomotive's number as it rumbles, speeds or slitheres
by. This number is then checked against the numbers in the Train Spotter
Reference Book, where once found, the number is actually UNDERLINED in the
book. This can then be used to demonstrate to other train spotters that you
spotted NUMBER 432186. That can be worth at least 2 pints down the boozer. A
good train spoter will have at least 50 books all underlined in neat
script:-)

They are NOT obsessed:-)))



Couldn't Beav have just said "you're a dork" or "you need to get out
more often"?

"Dork" just doesn't cut it Kev. Sory, but anyone using a speed dialer is FAR
FAR beyond the Dork stage:-)


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