Posted by Bill's News on 10/31/45 11:35

Bob wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 22:16:44 GMT, Roy L. Fuchs
> <roylfuchs@ufargingicehole.org> wrote:
>
>>> droll: having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality
>
>> OMG, you're right! That is the exact opposite meaning I had given
>> it.
>
>> I guess even Fred Flintstone used it incorrectly on Barney as
>> well!
>> That's seems to be where I garnered my assumed meaning from.
>
>> Wow... wonders never cease.
>
> Look up the word "camp". In the US it means
>
> camp: something so outrageously artificial, affected, inappropriate,
> or out-of-date as to be considered amusing; something
> self-consciously
> exaggerated or theatrical.
>
> However that is not its root meaning, which is used in Britain (gay
> capital of the world):
>
> camp: exaggerated effeminate mannerisms exhibited especially by
> homosexuals; a homosexual displaying camp

Thus the wry use of the title http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342167/

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