[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: WANTED: Grammar Expert

[Ladi lyndi]

--- Sally wrote:
> Maybe I'm naive but as far as I know a boob
> tube is a lady's 
> strapless top. ('Boobs' being a casual term for
> breasts, and 'tube' 
> indicating the shape of the garment.)
> 
> So why shouldn't you mention that in England?
> I'm not aware that the 
> term has anything to do with the cathode-ray
> tube on a telly, or 
> the fact that the London Underground is also
> known as 'The Tube'.
> 
> Or am I missing something? What does it mean in
> America? Is it 
> rude?? 
> Do please enlighten me, I'm fascinated to know!


Lynn:

Boob Tube:  A television set. (Boob: "A stupid or
foolish person; a dolt" (who watches too much
TV); Tube: the cathode ray tube of a TV
receiver.)  Another term used is the idiot box.

The boob tube you described is what I would call
a tube top.  See, I am going to have to learn a
new language. LOL

Lynn

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