Pack of Pooh Tickets

Posted by Lewis on February 01, 2007

In Reply to: Pack of Poo Tickets posted by ESC on January 26, 2007

: : : : Pack of Poo Ticket, what does this mean and where does it come from.

: : : A pack of poo tickets is a roll of toilet paper. Where does it come from? Dunno except for the obvious; it's a clever metaphor.
: : : SS

: : Believe it or not, this has been discussed and is in the archives. It is used to mean TP but its origin is:

: : like a pakapoo/pakapu ticket phr. [1950+] (Aus.) said of anything untidy, complex, incomprehensible. ... [Chinese pidgin _puk-ah-pu ticket_, a form of betting slip used by Chinese gamblers; properly known as _pai-ke-p'iao_, lit. 'white pigeon ticket', it was a small square of paper marked with 80 Chinese characters; the gambler chose some of these, usu. 10, and, depending on how many matched that day's winning combination, would make a small profit for their sixpenny stake]
: : From Cassell's Dictionary of Slang by Jonathon Green

: : He had come down early to mark a pak-ah-pu ticket at the Chinaman's in Hay Street. (Louis Stone, _Jonah_, 1911)

: : Henry opened Dooley's pay-book, the pages of which showed liberal sprinklings of the red ink in which fines and convictions were entered. "What a pay-book!" he sighed. Dooley grinned. "Like a pak-a-poo ticket," he agreed. (Eric Lambert, _The Twenty Thousand Thieves_, 1951)

how helpful! I don't think my speculation about going to the cinema to see Disney cartoons fits in well...