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Unread 08-18-2009, 03:18 PM
Jerome Betts Jerome Betts is offline
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John, the 'fruit' usage was a bit earlier in the 60s than your years and may have rapidly died. I suspect it may have been an import from some public school, perhaps Shrewsbury, which Richard Ingrams attended. He and Paul Foot edited Parson's Pleasure. Anyway, the fruit slang was sufficiently well known to make the joke headline work.
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