On 14/08/2011 useful wrote:
>Gribs, no hard feelings as long as you keep south of the border ya white
>settler.
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>Mikl a colon is for lists ":-" is a penis.
The technical term is a 'dog's bollocks' actually
Citing usage from 1949, the OED calls this mark the dog’s bollocks, which it defines as, “typogr. a colon followed by a dash, regarded as forming a shape resembling the male sexual organs.” |