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From: "Arthur" <arfa AT clara DOT net>
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Subject: RE: HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 17:25:37 +0100
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> > Arthur (arfa AT clara DOT net) wrote:
> > : Taking the mickey ;^)
> > 
> > And what does that mean? Any relation to Mr. Mouse?
> 
> I think it's from a (somewhat obsolete) American slang term:  a "Mickey
> Finn" is a drink that's been drugged.  So for anything to take a Mickey
> (Finn) would have a bad effect on it, and probably cause it to act
> strangely.
> 
> Who Mickey Finn was, I don't know.

Taking the Mickey == Making fun (of)...

Also, Taking the Michael or Taking the P*ss or many other similar phrases.

James Arthur
jaa AT arfa DOT clara DOT net
ICQ#15054819