Good stuff, Mancunian! Keep it up, but I'd refrain from using the word 'gay' in any of your other posts, just a passing observation. I do know that there's a black'n white flick that probably still is viewed by some students in China, in which a married man fails to start an affair with a lovestruck woman. She says 'I'm feeling gay' in the flick. There's a scene on London Bridge. But these days, when 'gay' is used, it means Lesbie or Homos...!
Plse correct me if I'm wrong.

PS - forgotten the picture's name, Strangers.....? or London Bridge sth?

Thanks for your advice, Fox, I know what you are saying. Gay is a really good word, and at Christmas time, it's used in many of our favourite Christmas songs. It doesn't really have a replacement if we allow it to be completely stolen for other things. Take a gaily coloured frock; how do we replace the gay without depriving it of it's true meaning? Another thing is this, using the word gay for homosexuals implies that they are always, bright ,happy, cheerful, colourful people, when in reality, apart from sexual preference, homosexuals are no different from the rest of us, so some of them can be miserable and not gay. We would have to often involve silly contradictions, like, 'The gay(happy cheerful) man sat crying on the cold wet steps, because his boyfriend had been hit by a truck'

Happy Hogmanay, Foxy.