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[elysesewell]

I've been struggling not to let the cold weather shrink my world: it's so easy to come home from from my day's ladypose, rip off my false eyelashes and stick them to the wall, boil up some rooibos with cut-up ginger, and collapse into bed with a piece of the dogshit British "chicklit" library I have amassed (and oh god, that is a bleak genre. If

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[anonymous]

British Chick Lit will also always talk about getting something at "Marks and Sparks."

[talkingtocactus]

but marks and spark *is* awesome. although i think most of us stopped calling it that in about 1988.

[javafox]

These are not just pants.

These are M&S pants.

(Thought I'd riff a bit :-) )

[talkingtocactus]

just don't tell paxo ;)

not to mention madonna

[anonymous]

don't tell madge either, knowing she really hates that too, hehhehe....

[elysesewell]

Ohh, they're calling it that to be cute? I thought it was to avoid copyright infringement (the OP is right: "Marks and Sparks" is namechecked frequently).

[talkingtocactus]

i don't think it's a copyright thing, it's just that that was a popular nickname for it here - at least it was in the 70s and 80s, i guess chicklit is still a few years behind the rest of us cool cats ;) most people just say M&S, it's by far the easiest and we all know what it means :)

[thaumata]

I've been in the UK about 5 months of the last twelve and everyone here still calls it Marks and Sparks.

[talkingtocactus]

fair dos - i haven't heard it called that in quite a while, apart from ironically. although there's a limit to the amount of ways you can be ironic about M&S, unless you're taking off their sex food ads.