Monday, December 10, 2007

spot poll: having tiffin

Question... how many people get the double meaning?

Just out of interest...

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

I had to google it to find out.

Anonymous said...

I don't get it :( (Is it a British joke?)

tiffin said...

I feel I ought to let a few more people comment before I give it away...

Very British though...

Mas. said...

Goodness me! What a variety of meanings. And here was me thinking "tiffin?" - that's like a "having a bit of a tiff; a spat, a disagreement..." then I google and find the hideous truth!!!

You're having a Surrey boys grammar school! ( www.tiffin.kingston.sch.uk )

:-P
X

Dan said...

I did get the joke (although the grammar school did spring into my mind, as it's in my neck of the woods + some of my friends went there!)

Anonymous said...

There's always time for Tiffin. It's very "Carry On Up the Khyber" though.

Do you know the origin of the double meaning?

Sarah said...

Nope, it's lost on me.

tiffin said...

Well, as I understood it

Tiffin = a snack between meals

But it also = a euphemism for sex (See Carry on films)

AND Moran quote "You, you and you, fuck off, we're having tiffin" (on colonisation)

tiffin said...

Oh, and my mate Don went to Tiffin Boys' School...

Dan said...

Well I don't know him :)

(He said, wondering just how many "degrees of separation" apart we actually are - methinks it's gonna be a small number :S).