On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 05:16:28 -0700 (PDT), Dave Brown
<browniebrownz@googlemail.com> wrote:

>> >>> "We're going on a bear hunt"?

>> >> that's Hampstead Heath
>> >
>> > Isn't that 'bare hunt?' - or did you mean 'beer hunt'?
>> >
>> bless

<snigger>
>> https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bear
>
>Lolz (at the fact you needed to explain).....

+1
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Champ
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On 8/11/2022 6:29 AM, wessie wrote:
> Turby <xsurf@xmail.com> wrote in news:td2tel$25vp1$1@dont-email.me:
>
>
>>> https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bear
>>
>> Funny. I didn't see 'bear market' anywhere on that site. Prolly the
>> most common usage I've seen.
>>
>>
>
> bear market is hardly a slang term

"Fuzzy and cute woodland creature" isn't either, but it's #3 on the list.

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On 11/08/2022 13:41, Turby wrote:
> On 8/11/2022 4:54 AM, wessie wrote:
>>
>> bless
>>
>> https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bear
>
> Funny. I didn't see 'bear market' anywhere on that site. Prolly the most
> common usage I've seen.

Did you try putting "bear market" into the bit at the top where you
search for words?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bear%20market

On 11/08/2022 13:16, Dave Brown wrote:
> On Thursday, August 11, 2022 at 12:54:59 PM UTC+1, wessie wrote:
>> "ChrisND @UKRM" <chr...@privacy.net> wrote in news:jlk47vFa5d3U2
>> @mid.individual.net:
>>> On 10/08/2022 21:04, wessie wrote:
>>>> "ChrisND @UKRM" <chr...@privacy.net> wrote in
>>>> news:jlht1m...@mid.individual.net:
>>>>
>>>>> On 09/08/2022 11:36, YTC#1 wrote:
>>>>>> On 08/08/2022 22:12, Spike wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40105353
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Guess what song I was singing as we rode through West Virginia in
>>>>>> 2007? :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>> "We're going on a bear hunt"?
>>>>> Chris
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> that's Hampstead Heath
>>>
>>> Isn't that 'bare hunt?' - or did you mean 'beer hunt'?
>>>
>> bless
>>
>> https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bear
>
> Lolz (at the fact you needed to explain).....

Ermm, it ws new to me.
Some of us are just a bit innocent in comparison.

--
Bruce Porter
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YTC#1 <bdp@ytc1-spambin.co.uk> wrote in news:td3i0t$28331$3@dont-email.me:

> On 11/08/2022 13:16, Dave Brown wrote:
>> Lolz (at the fact you needed to explain).....
>
> Ermm, it ws new to me.
> Some of us are just a bit innocent in comparison.
>

you just have a shit memory

most people here were educated about bears when BGN was a regular

On 11/08/2022 21:16, wessie wrote:
> YTC#1 <bdp@ytc1-spambin.co.uk> wrote in news:td3i0t$28331$3@dont-email.me:
>
>> On 11/08/2022 13:16, Dave Brown wrote:
>
>>> Lolz (at the fact you needed to explain).....
>>
>> Ermm, it ws new to me.
>> Some of us are just a bit innocent in comparison.
>>
>
> you just have a shit memory
>

Maybe it is selective.

> most people here were educated about bears when BGN was a regular

--
Bruce Porter
"The internet is a huge and diverse community but mainly friendly"
http://ytc1.blogspot.co.uk/
There *is* an alternative! http://www.openoffice.org/

On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 20:16:46 -0000 (UTC), wessie
<willnotwork@tesco.net> wrote:

>YTC#1 <bdp@ytc1-spambin.co.uk> wrote in news:td3i0t$28331$3@dont-email.me:
>
>> On 11/08/2022 13:16, Dave Brown wrote:
>
>>> Lolz (at the fact you needed to explain).....
>>
>> Ermm, it ws new to me.
>> Some of us are just a bit innocent in comparison.

>you just have a shit memory

I'm hardly one to throw this particular stone from my personal
glasshouse, but I would agree on this occasion

>most people here were educated about bears when BGN was a regular

It's certainly how I found out this meaning of 'bear'
--
Champ
neal at champ dot org dot uk

I don't know, but I been told
You never slow down, you never grow old