A Conversation for United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - Some history and definitions
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C Hawke Posted Nov 12, 2003
Pimms - Think you deserved the credit - even if it was just keeping the thread going 
insn't there a IoM entry somewhere 1/2 done?
And the barracking was never really aimed at me - I just sat back and took the final consensus!
CHawke
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HappyDude Posted Nov 12, 2003
It wuz fun
what next?
the Magna Carta
*giggles*
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Sea Change Posted Nov 12, 2003
Congratulations all!
Oooh, a new word! What does barracking mean? 
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HappyDude Posted Nov 13, 2003
think about it, you have seen the films, the drill sergeant, the new recruits, in the barracks ...
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Pimms Posted Nov 13, 2003
I didn't know the etymology myself, using google suggests it isn't derived from barracks, though it has much in common with the sergeant shouting at the recruits >
Chiefly British. To jeer or shout at a player, speaker, or team.
Australian. To shout support for a team.
v. tr. Chiefly British
To shout against; jeer at.
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[Perhaps from Irish dialectal barrack, to brag akin to brag.]
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barrack·er n.
barracking
n : shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree [syn: heckling]
Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University
Pimmsaloonie 
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Sea Change Posted Nov 13, 2003
Happy Dude sez: "think about it, you have seen the films, the drill sergeant, the new recruits, in the barracks ..."
I have two friends who are into military (esp. US Marine) porn, so *my* mind was going somewhere else entirely.
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