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[telophase]

Rereading The Hobbit, for obvious reasons, and ran across a sentence that made my inner twelve-year-old snigger, thanks to the changing meaning of words over the years. From the chapter where the wood-elves capture and imprison Thorin:

Then the elves put thongs on him, and shut him in one of the inmost caves with strong wooden doors, and left him.

And thus were a thousand fanfics born.

Comments

[movingfinger]

"Thongs" are flip-flops in Australia, making it even funnier IMO.

"No! Not those! My arches! AAAAAUGH!"

[telophase]

When I first ran across them, in Africa in the 70s, we called them "thongs" also, which led to a major paradigm shift on my part when the underwear term starting showing up!

[rachelmanija]

...and then stood spying through the peep-hole.

[telophase]

"They gave him food and drink, plenty of both, if not very fine; for Wood-elves were not goblins, and were reasonably well-behaved even to their worst enemies, when they captured them." If you know what I mean!