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Thread #63069   Message #2835477
Posted By: Joe_F
10-Feb-10 - 06:10 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/ADD: It's a Beautiful Day (C O'Hegarty)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: We're All Happy When the Sun Shines
That's "Aristotlers". "Aristotle" is rhyming slang for "bottle", which is short for "bottle & glass", which is rhyming slang for "fuck in the arse". Thus, Aristotlers are buggers. This is all explained by Robert Graves in his amusing essay "Lars Porsena". He in turn needed to have it explained to him, discreetly, after he happened to mention Aristotle while conversing in a pub, and was indignantly told by the proprietor that that sort of language wasn't allowed there.