CHARLIE IS DEAD WHAT DOES IT MEAN

[jaybones]

I have been told in the office several times today that Charlie is dead. I have no idea what this means and neither does my friend when I asked her. Just curious to find out if any one knows or is it some kind of joke I am not picking up on. The older co workers who told me said yu will eventually find out.

[HowardKennitby]

http://www.vocaboly.com/forums/ftopic448.html

[sandyRoe]

It now means that an edge of white undergarments is showing.

[NOX]

Black petticoat showing- if they say 'It's snowing down south' it means a white one.

[cupid04]

It used to mean your petticoat is showing. Does anyone still wear one?

[Kiki-frog]

Someone told me that it relates to Royalist ladies wearing their skirts in a certain way when Charles 1 was executed as a sign of mourning that wouldn't incriminate themselves as Royalists. Could be true, I suppose

[cupid04]

It was also Fred is dead when I was at school!

[jno]

mostly worn on the outside these days, aren't they?

http://cn1.kaboodle.c...Q.jpg?v=1236948056000

[craft1948]

On the very rare occasion that I wear a skirt or dress, if they are unlined I wear a petticoat...................

[emmie]

it used to mean your petticoat was showing, haven't heard that in donkey's years

[chaptazbru]

Never worn a 'petticoat' in my ife (lol) .....

[ll_billym]

I'm guessing it was jaybones petticoat that was showing then. Ha ha ha.

[craft1948]

It can't just be me who wears them as M&S still sell them...............

[chaptazbru]

My Mum wears them.

[Kiki-frog]

I wear them as well, craft, so it's perfectly normal!

[rojash]

^^ not for me, it's not

[jaybones]

Thanks every one, I will know to check my slip in futuure. My friend had told me on the way to work this morning my slip was showing and suggeested on the way home I check the elastic as it was comeing down again. You live and learn and I had been walking about all day with my slip on show..

[gness]

Always wear one if I wear a skirt....which isn't often.

[shoota]

Just in case you end up in a skip........?

[gness]

Long black slip that night!

[JonnyBoy12]

I used to know it as 'snowing down south'. That is a Yankee expression, I think.