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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 6 Dec 2000.
Re: Weekend Warrior! [was [pic] footballer]

Re: Weekend Warrior! [was [pic] footballer]

On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 19:49:59 GMT bor...@tedious.net (Justin Case)
wrote:
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>I don't know what they call it in the UK, but in the US we call
>typical 9_to_5'ers "Weekend Warriors". This is especially true when
>the "warrior" in question likes to remind everyone of what a big jock
>he _used_ to be (stress on _used_). I've been around boring bastards
>like that at the gym. Stupid gits. <g>

I think here "weekend warriors" refers to army reservists.
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