• Punkie@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Yeah as a kid in the 70s, it was a known trope. Benny Hill and Monty Python even alluded to it.

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      Long before the '70s. The British arms manufacturing companies Vickers and Armstrong Whitworth merged in the late 1920s to become Vickers-Armstrongs Limited. Employees of the former Armstrong Whitworth were not happy about the merger and joked about being like choirboys - because they were being buggered by Vickers (i.e. “buggered by vicars”).