Casey McQuiston — ‘I've been gay as a maypole sce the day I me out of Mum, Philip’
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TEN MUT AT ELTON JOHN'S, YOU'RE AS GAY AS A MAYPOLE!
While speakg to my girliend about this wonrful film, I let drop that my unrstandg of Joe’s famo le to Billy Mack is “Ten mut at Elton John’s, and you’re as gay as a meatball, ” rather than “maypole. “Gay as a maypole” is a double-barrelled reference, relatg to both the gay (happy) celebratn of dancg around the streamer vered maypole, and the fact that a Maypole is the banner staff of the Merry Mount gay say someone is as “Gay as a meatball” is a far more culturally sensive-yet-Brish sult, as another archailly mon name for a meatball the parts is a “faggot.