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neilmarr · 10-03-2010, 05:32 AM

Actually, Steven and Steve, those Old School Tie terms are still widely used -- but only ironically, and in the True Blue Brit sense of joking against themselves and their image elsewhere. The Scots do it too -- I sometimes use (for similar fun): 'Hoots Toots the Noo' in signing off posts here. Nobody in Scotland would ever use the term other than in jest. It's a play on stereotyping. Toodlepip, Old Beans. Neil

10-03-2010, 05:32 AM	#20
neilmarr neilmarr Posts: 7,215 Karma: 6000059 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Monaco-Menton, France Device: sony	Actually, Steven and Steve, those Old School Tie terms are still widely used -- but only ironically, and in the True Blue Brit sense of joking against themselves and their image elsewhere. The Scots do it too -- I sometimes use (for similar fun): 'Hoots Toots the Noo' in signing off posts here. Nobody in Scotland would ever use the term other than in jest. It's a play on stereotyping. Toodlepip, Old Beans. Neil