Am I A 'Toff'?
As an addendum to my recent discussion thread about personality, one of the dancers plying her SS on me that evening called me a 'toff'. First, I was stunned to encounter a dancer with that word in her vocabulary. Second, I was even more stunned to have that word used to describe me.
Do my tuscl posts make me seem like a 'toff'?
vincemichaels, trojangreg; you guys have met me. Please tell me that I didn't come across as a 'toff' when we met in clubs.
Does anybody on tuscl use that word or even know what it means?
Do my tuscl posts make me seem like a 'toff'?
vincemichaels, trojangreg; you guys have met me. Please tell me that I didn't come across as a 'toff' when we met in clubs.
Does anybody on tuscl use that word or even know what it means?
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Toff
Wearer of only Ralph Lauren polo shirts, usualy worn inside with loafers and torn up jeans half down their trousers, with 3day old boxers on underneath
Always found drinking jugs of pims brought by daddy or mummy at the local Hunt Ball, or pints of Bitter with their pals in there local underage pub.
Listen to songs like 'Roxanne by Sting' or the Top Gun soundtrack.
Went to Public School paid for by daddy
That said, you seem fairly down to earth.
http://thegrove-w210.blogspot.com/2010/1…
The word "toff" is thought to come from the word "tuft", which was a gold tassel worn by titled undergraduates at Oxford University or Cambridge University.
This stripper spoke with an English accent in a Calgary club so she was unusal, indeed.
@lopaw,
Canadians....zany vocabulary....? For me it is you Americans that have the strange vocabulary. We speak the Queen's English (and the old King's French) in Canada. That language you characters speak south of the 49th parallel really puzzles me sometimes.
@steve229,
I knew I could count on you to dredge up a link such as that one.
For what it is worth, 'toff' to me means an upper class moneyed fop - something that I assure everyone that I am not. I am the descendant of horney-handed Scandinavian peasants, raised on a farm, no education (but I read many many books). Got my hands dirty all my life to make a buck or two.
I was sorely insulted when that stripper called me a toff.
You are without a doubt a Toff! Even though I've never heard the term, met you, or have a lot of concern either way. The very fact that you look to vm for support and know him, well that says it all and you make the Toff honor roll!
fa,
Welcom3 to Toff United! :)
Hope she's not one of them Oxford educated foreign strippers that are gonna migrate south cause of the ban. Only motorhead would understand her SS.
You crack me up, Ermita_Nights!! Apart from pipe over my shoulder, I have been known to go to the Rig Pig in Nisku, AB dressed exactly as you described. And, for 30+ years that was my regular gear. Not so much now; I am more 'corporate' these days though I will still get 'down and dirty' in the 'tools' when need arises.
You have something in common with the dancers...
"I will still get 'down and dirty' in the 'tools' when need arises." :)
Remember the topic on names for a woman's body parts?" "Tool" for a man always seemed strange to me.
I am glad you commented. I do have a question: in some articles I read - and you - used the term "publicly educated". In the States, we would generally view "public" universities as a step below "private" universities.
Our public universities are schools that receive state tax dollars and have lower tuition rates. Schools such as Michigan State, Ohio State, the University of Texas, fall into that category. Some are excellent schools. (California- Berkeley, The Univesity of Virginia) but are not in the class as private schools - Yale, Harvard, Stanford, or Dartmouth).
I'm confused why the elite, prestigious schools are referred to a "public".
Thanks
And you - old Etonian, Harrovian? Your college - Balliol, New, Trinity?
That stripper who used the word when chatting with me did have a rather plummy accent. Is the term 'Sloane Ranger' still used in England? 'Gells' can be toffs, can't they?
@ farmerart...'sloane ranger' was a fashionable term for posh girls that lived and 'worked' in the Chelsea and surrounding areas of West London. It's rarely used by anyone know. Yes, girls can be toffs but the term is more associated with a guy.
@ steve 3003...Chelsea only have 2/3 English guys in the team usually. As for Barclays, they are bankers and bankers are the same the world over.