[Edinburgh-pm] 2nd Wed

[Robert Rothenberg]

On 15/01/09 15:44 Nick Woolley wrote:
> Murray wrote:
>> They serve a variety of tequila based drinks -- perfect to help forget
>> the last eight years of your life, or to celebrate the impending period
>> of hope/change/bitter-disillusionment.
> 
> Call me a fool, but I was puzzled for a while there, before I realised 
> you weren't in some sort of a personal crisis.  And I've still not 
> figured the bit about septic tanks...

Rhyming slang for "yanks". Usually just shortened to "septics".

(Funny thing is that "yankee" might have been an Algonquin slang for "English".)