The Official Cellar T-Shirt Sale

[Happy Monkey]

Just got my first two.

Lookin' good!

[OnyxCougar]

Got my 3/4 tee, and boy, lemme tell yah, WAY TOO SMALL doesn't describe it.....

I got a pic and will post it tomorrow.


I love it tho!!!!

[zippyt]

I got mine today , now i'm just waiting for a royal blue t or 2 for my wife .

[jaguar]

Arrived today =D
US Medium is huge compared to what i'm used to! I could wear it as a minskirt but for the good of humanity, won't. That said, very cool.

[xoxoxoBruce]

That's nothing Jag, you should see our medium condoms.

[lumberjim]

Originally Posted by jaguar

Arrived today =D
US Medium is huge compared to what i'm used to! I could wear it as a minskirt but for the good of humanity, won't. That said, very cool.

yep, we grow 'em big over here. it's all the hot dogs and apple pie.

[jaguar]

I have a healthy respect for the intelligence of US marketers, my bet is there's a law of inverse exponentials in effect.

[Silent]

Got mine yesterday.

Pretty snazy. :-)

[CzinZumerzet]

This is hugely happy THANK YOU to LJ and the Toad, because the shirts have landed and England may never be quite the same again!! They actually arrived while I was away on July um...7th, which is really good considering it is holiday time and lotsa postal workers are on a beach in Spain leaving delivery to students. Too much info there but hey ho. They are ginormous which is great because a shirt with collar will go nicely under, and have interestingly long arms..... Hmmmm.

One for me and one for my stepson who is a techie with a shirt to die for, so its off to the pub for us tonight to await massive compliments to go with lots of free drink Was there enough cash? I have Pay pal now so could top it up if required?? Let me know, and thank you again.

[Undertoad]

LJ deserves 95% of the credit!!! I am too confused to even send out the address challenged people's on time. Those are going out on Monday I swear it!

[lumberjim]

sorry, I can only accept 67% of the credit. any more than that puts me in a higher tax bracket.

[Sun_Sparkz]

I got mine yesterday!!

Well done LJ and Toad, i'm VERY IMPRESSED!!! the shirt (i got the ribbed one) fits perfectly!! Looks great with my Fav. jeans.. well done!!

A million thank you's for all your efforts guys

i'm new i'm poor i've no money~~~~55555

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by jaguar

my thoughts exactly.

That's awful, the word you're looking for is snags, bangers is a pommy term.

Well, it's a slow day and I've finally had time for my favorite pastime, which is fact-checking, trivia-searching on the Internet. I was curious about the 'pommy' term. I understood that it meant 'British', but I could not figure out why. My first thought was pomegranate, but I couldn't figure out what that had to do with 'British'. Lime juice for preventing scurvy and 'Limey' were something I guessed at a while back.

POM
[Q] From Rosemary Wetherall: “Is pom short for Port of Melbourne (where the ships docked), Prisoners Of her Majesty, as they were convict ships, or did we all really look like a cargo of pomegranates when we caught the sun? Or is it simply rhyming slang for immigrant?”
[A] You’ve done a great job of listing many of the explanations that one comes across for the origin of this Australian term for British immigrants. You could have added a possible derivation from the common naval slang term for Portsmouth, Pompey, or from pommes de terres for potatoes, much eaten by British troops in World War One, or an abbreviation for Permit of Migration. All of them except your last two, I have to tell you, are folk etymology (which, for some reason I’ve never understood, loves to invent origins based on acronyms).
Part of the reason for all these theories growing up is that there was for decades much doubt over the true origin of the expression, with various Oxford dictionaries, for example, continuing to say that there is no firm evidence for the pomegranate theory. That origin was described by D H Lawrence in his Kangaroo of 1923: “Pommy is supposed to be short for pomegranate. Pomegranate, pronounced invariably pommygranate, is a near enough rhyme to immigrant, in a naturally rhyming country. Furthermore, immigrants are known in their first months, before their blood ‘thins down’, by their round and ruddy cheeks. So we are told”. You will note that he had to explain the pronunciation that we would now take to be the usual one: in standard English it used not to have the first “e” sounded, with pome often rhyming with home.
It is now pretty well accepted that the pomegranate theory is close to the truth, though there’s a slight twist to take note of. H J Rumsey wrote about it in 1920 in the introduction to his book The Pommies, or New Chums in Australia. He suggested that the word began life on the wharves in Melbourne as a form of rhyming slang. An immigrant was at first called a Jimmy Grant (was there perhaps a famous real person by that name around at the time?), but over time this shifted to Pommy Grant, perhaps as a reference to pomegranate, because the new chums did burn in the sun. Later pommy became a word on its own and was frequently abbreviated still further. The pomegranate theory was also given some years earlier in The Anzac Book of 1916.
Whatever your beliefs about this one, what seems to be true is that the term is not especially old, dating from the end of the nineteenth century at the earliest, certainly not so far back as convict ship days.

[zippyt]

Yo Jimbo , we are still shy 2 royal blue shirst for my wife , ETA ????