RIDDUM_N_STYLE Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 TIL that a club sandwich stands for chicken, lettuce under bacon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted May 14, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted May 14, 2018 I doubt that's true. Probably a backronym. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted May 14, 2018 Moderators Share Posted May 14, 2018 Yeah. It's complete bollocks. Don't make me have to mandate sources for this thread. However, as a result of going and looking it up myself! TIL that a club sandwich refers to that filling specifically. I always thought any sandwich where you use three bits of bread was a club. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted May 14, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted May 14, 2018 (edited) It's not true about the club sandwich being an acronym. It's because they were a signature sandwich of the Union Club in New York. TIL (well, yesterday, really) that John Michael Riva, the set designer of The Goonies, The Golden Child, The Colour Purple, three of the Lethal Weapon movies, two of the Spider-Man movies, two of the Iron Man movies, and a whole shit-ton of other big hits, was the grandson of Marlene Dietrich. Edited May 14, 2018 by Carbomb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted May 14, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted May 14, 2018 (edited) 13 minutes ago, BomberPat said: I doubt that's true. Probably a backronym. Yep, it must be. It's named after the Union Club in New York. Â edit: wow, mofos got there quick. Just goes to show how much bollocks it is Edited May 14, 2018 by PunkStep as quick as a cheetah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted May 14, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted May 14, 2018 3 minutes ago, PunkStep said: Yep, it must be. It's named after the Union Club in New York. Â edit: wow, mofos got there quick. Just goes to show how much bollocks it is One of my favourite bits of bollocks to mess with people is to tell them that TUC biscuits and biscuit sandwiches were originally made by McVities for the Trades Union Congress meetings to show the biscuit industry's level of unionisation and solidarity, and were so popular they put them out on the general market. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordsfromlee Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 TIL that Liam Gallagher's actual name is William Gallagher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Onyx2 Posted May 14, 2018 Awards Moderator Share Posted May 14, 2018 The 'club' thing is doing the rounds because of the episode of Car Share from last week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Justice Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 2 hours ago, wordsfromlee said: TIL that Liam Gallagher's actual name is William Gallagher. Yep, and Noel's is actually Chernoelbyl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Accident Prone Posted May 15, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted May 15, 2018 A colleague at my old job insisted that 'NEWS' was an acronym for News, Entertainment, Weather, Sports. Before the whole lunch room had a chance to lampoon him, another loudly piped up with, "No, you twat, it stands for North, East, South and West!". Glad I wasn't there for long.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted May 15, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted May 15, 2018 That's one that's been around forever. Backronyms are one of my irrational pet hates, because it's the sort of thing invariably spouted by someone with a sense of pub know-it-all smugness, and it's all just bollocks. That NEWS one in particular, considering the abbreviation includes the word "News". There's also the claim that "CHAV" is an acronym for "Council House And Violent", or variants on that theme, rather than it having a much older, infinitely more interesting etymology than that. The one I remember being told from back when I was a kid, that you still hear from time to time, is that "POSH" was derived from "Port Out, Starboard Home", which is equally bollocks. And the absolute worst of the lot, and the most smug pub bore "fact" of all, is that "FUCK" was an abbreviation of "Fornication Under Consent Of The King", because of some invented time in the past when a couple could only have sex by royal contract, and the initials "FUCK" would be written up outside of their house. Let's ignore the fact that those people wouldn't have been able to read, and that no such law ever existed (as would be obvious to anyone with the brain to consider it for a second) - the word "fuck" is an older word in the English language than "fornication", and a far, far better one. Â The thing to remember with all of this stuff is that widespread literacy is a relatively recent phenomenon - in the days when the majority of the population couldn't read, why would any word in popular usage be derived from an abbreviation that would only come about when the word was written down? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Maestro Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 Former Aston Villa and Bolton Wanderers player Jlloyd Samuel has died in a car crash at the age of 37. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted May 15, 2018 Moderators Share Posted May 15, 2018 Wrong thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Your Fight Site Posted May 15, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted May 15, 2018 3 hours ago, BomberPat said: That's one that's been around forever. Backronyms are one of my irrational pet hates, because it's the sort of thing invariably spouted by someone with a sense of pub know-it-all smugness, and it's all just bollocks. That NEWS one in particular, considering the abbreviation includes the word "News". There's also the claim that "CHAV" is an acronym for "Council House And Violent", or variants on that theme, rather than it having a much older, infinitely more interesting etymology than that. The one I remember being told from back when I was a kid, that you still hear from time to time, is that "POSH" was derived from "Port Out, Starboard Home", which is equally bollocks. And the absolute worst of the lot, and the most smug pub bore "fact" of all, is that "FUCK" was an abbreviation of "Fornication Under Consent Of The King", because of some invented time in the past when a couple could only have sex by royal contract, and the initials "FUCK" would be written up outside of their house. Let's ignore the fact that those people wouldn't have been able to read, and that no such law ever existed (as would be obvious to anyone with the brain to consider it for a second) - the word "fuck" is an older word in the English language than "fornication", and a far, far better one.  The thing to remember with all of this stuff is that widespread literacy is a relatively recent phenomenon - in the days when the majority of the population couldn't read, why would any word in popular usage be derived from an abbreviation that would only come about when the word was written down? My favourite backronym from school was that “pal” meant “personal arse licker”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted May 16, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted May 16, 2018 Is @Gus Mears aware? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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