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Re: That Age Thing

From: Indy <kochte@s...>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:41:50 -0500
Subject: Re: That Age Thing

Ground Zero Games wrote:
> 
> >Okay, I have to ask - anorak?  My Webster's seventh New Collegiate
> >dictionary only defines it as a 'parka' and I don't want to wake the
> >little one just yet by digging out the "new 20th Century
unabridged"...
> 
> Yup, that's it - a particularly nasty sort of (usually nylon) parka,
the
> finer (!) examples have a fur-edged hood.
> The slang useage comes from it being the garment of choice for many
> trainspotters and similar hobbyists who are perceived as "sad" by the
> mundanes in the general populace.

Then I vote for "Full Metal Anorak" for the FMA game name.  :-)

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