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[Guest]

This seems to confuse a lot of people, but I hate to see such a glaring error on my favorite sim site..."Win some, loose some"this should read:"Win some, lose some"loose as in pants: my pants are too loose, that's why you can see my underwear, homey!lose as in, lose sight, lose the fightotherwise keep up the great work!

[Tom Allensworth 1,532]

Yes.. sometimes the 'ol brain goes on vacation. It has subsequently been corrected.

[Guest The Ancient Brit]

Tom, you can console yourself with the fact that in the Avsim file uploading procedure the word

[Guest]

Denis in this context it is slang for "Home Boy" a term that is/was used by youth to refer to somebody from their own neighborhood.http://www.avsim.com/pages/robert/kirkland.jpg

[Guest The Ancient Brit]

Thanks for the information Robert; I am learning all the time in these Avsim forums. I can only plead the term "homey" is not in common usage where I live, North Wales, hence my ignorance.Slightly off topic but concerning the use or misuse of words, I heard a story concerning Webster of dictionary fame. While his dictionary was being compiled, Mrs. Webster entered his study only to find him in a compromising position with one of his female assistants.