Thread: Look what I found

Looks like we've got a few "Boys from the Dwarf" here.

Originally Posted by d@rk51d3

Looks like we've got a few "Boys from the Dwarf" here.

Apparently "Back to Earth" is available next month. Can't wait!

That Shorty SIII looks the goods. You'd be laughing at $750!

It'd be like calling your car "Dick Cheese".

Originally Posted by korg20000bc

It'd be like calling your car "Dick Cheese".

Not exactly, there is a difference between "smeg" and "smegma"



Btw - looks like a great little truck - well done!

Fit some extractors and a 12V vac pump (or vac alternator) instead of the butterfly valve and it should go well!

Yeah.
I never wanted to wash anything in those Smeg brand dishwashers.

But the reference was to Red Dwarf and the use of "Smeg Head" and "What the smeg!?" which clearly was an abbreviated smegma reference.

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

only 2 letters

The Red Dwarf "Smeg" was probably a shortening of the word to get round the censors

Besides....everyone would just THINK Smegma
I would anyway!!

Well you must just have a dirty mind...

The show's creators (Grant Naylor) have stated it was not related to a medical term and was a made up swear word. The show has consistently claimed to know nothing[citation needed] of the word "smegma" (A whitish sebaceous secretion that collects between the glans penis and foreskin or in the vulva), and that "smeg" was entirely made up, sounding as it did like a generic, four-letter, single-syllable swear-word that might be used in the future (and so could be used in the programme in place of swear words that, at the time, would not usually be used in mainstream sitcoms).

Lexicographer Tony Thorne, in his 1990 Dictionary of Contemporary Slang (ISBN 0-7475-2856-X), reports instances of "smeg" (and derivatives) being used as a term of "mild contempt and even affection" among "schoolboys, students and punks" as early as the mid-1970s — a decade or so prior to the inception of the Red Dwarf phenomenon — and claims unequivocally that the etymology of the term traces back to "smegma".

In the "Let's Swear" item in Bachelor Boys, the Young Ones book, the character Rick, played by Rik Mayall, calls another character "smeg face".

"Smeg" is also the name of a manufacturer of electrical appliances, notably fridge freezers.

Smeg is much older than red dwarf it seems...

Since SMEG appliances was founded in 1948, it is just as likely that "smeg head" meant your head is the shape of a fridge.

Given that SMEG (FA are well known for making retro style fridges, calling a series landrover SMEG seems to fit perfectly