QaF, Chinese dinner

[skreidle]

I just learned that the title of the TV show "Queer as Folk" comes from an old British saying, "There's naught so queer as folk"--i.e., there's nothing as strange as people.

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Dinner was quite tasty--homemade lemon chicken, cashew chickenbok choi, and steamed pork dumplings (which have a Chinese name I've forgotten again*), preceded by shrimp crackers and a bit of sparkling wine, and followed by dishwashing and a bit of tawny port. :)

Update, 1/27 19:15: Jiaozi, says Jillian. :)

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[classytart.livejournal.com]

"Naught so queer as folk"
It's a saying from Yorkshire - a county in the North(ish) of England. When they first did Queer as Folk here it was an obvious pun, but I have always wondered what the American audiences made of the title. :)

How did that come up in conversation, by the way? How did you learn it?

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[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Never really thought about its origin, but in the US, "queer" is often used as a synonym for "homosexual."

It came up because there was some sort of documentary about QaF on, with interviews of the actors and such. :)

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[classytart.livejournal.com]

"Queer" is a synonym for "homosexual" here, too, but the title was always a pun here because of that and the phrase.

Ah!