And to prove my point, I will show a picture of them. Just so you know, fag is the slang word often used for cigarettes in England.
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And to prove my point, I will show a picture of them. Just so you know, fag is the slang word often used for cigarettes in England.
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Faggots are basically terms for cigarettes or sticks, and English meatballs. Oh, I just wonder how that leaped to being a gay term in America.
When did "gay" leap from meaning "cheerful" and "merry"?
When did "gay" leap from meaning "cheerful" and "merry"?
Don't know for sure, it must have been after The Flinstones cartoon as their theme said have a gay old time in happy means.
Don't know for sure, it must have been after The Flinstones cartoon as their theme said have a gay old time in happy means.
I have no idea. Considering homosexuality was against the law, it might have been code within the group like when a guy at a bar says "I have to go see a man about a horse".
It was also used here in the early 70's.
Not that I ever remember.
No doubt if you had hung out with the pipe smokers like coldjoint then you might have heard it.Not that I ever remember.It was also used here in the early 70's.