Balderdash and Piffle

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 02 Jan 2006, 18:36

9pm, BBC2

Interesting sounding programme about the origins of words/expressions and where they come from. For instance, where does the expression "The Full Monty" come from?

Anyone going to see it?

BiscLimpkit · Post by **BiscLimpkit** » 05 Jan 2006, 12:28

Did I miss this?

In case I did, can anyone reveal some interesting facts that they learned from the programme?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 05 Jan 2006, 15:13

I don't know, did you miss it Bisc or didnt you?

BiscLimpkit · Post by **BiscLimpkit** » 05 Jan 2006, 22:31

I guess I did lol.

Did you watch this?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 06 Jan 2006, 10:28

Yes, it was pretty good IMO. They all had phrases like "pear shaped", "ploughman's lunch" or whatever, first turning up around a certain time, and the presenter would say "No, we've found it turns up earlier" and they had to go to the writers of the Oxford Dictionary to persuade them to rewrite it.