Nov. 4th, 2004

Slang

Nov. 4th, 2004 12:47 am
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BRIAN

I just wanted to say ... I think your music is tops – smashing, really – best of the lot.
Curt looks up at him in a junkie blur.
CURT

Smashing, top hole, jolly old –


Despite being stoned out of his mind, Curt repeats Brian's smashing and comes up with top hole – both being RAF slang for excellent – and then doesn't quite make it through jolly olde England. Whether he is mocking Brian or trying to put him at ease, we can only guess, what's for certain is, they don't talk that way around Detroit.

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