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[mikey4444]

last one....23d...Old man's uprising thats 11....T?C?

As everything this week is Mexican, I presume this must be TACO but why ?

[bibblebub]

old = O, man = CAT [slang from some time ago]

put them together and reverse to get TACO

[mikey4444]

Not just me up at this early hour then bibs ? Early to bed, early to rise, etc, etc.

I don't know where Paul gets these words from. I have never heard of CAT being used for a man, and neither does Chambers. He could be making them up for all we know.

However, thanks to you and Happy New Year !

[kalahari]

Mikey4444 I guess you are way too young to have heard that kind of slang. For those of us who lived through the hippie generation and the time of free love.....ah well. Just remember, if you are going to San Francisco, make sure you wear some flowers in your hair!

[bibblebub]

it is in Chambers in cat(1) 7 lines down

...a showily dressed man (old sl); a man, chap (sl)...

[mikey4444]

Thanks guys. I do remember the Summer of Love, although I was only 13 at the time. I recall there was a lot of wearing of bells on thongs around the neck, and that was rural Somerset, not California !

I have checked again and yes, it is in Chambers, so I stand corrected !

[bibblebub]

oooh aaah you be one cool cat my loverly