TimeWarpWife
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A friend in the '70s went away to boarding school and came back calling things he approved of "shag." If something was highly approved, it was "mega shag." If it was the ultima thule of approval, it was "mega shag to the max much."
He was given the cold shoulder for such pronouncments, and soon moved away in shame, never to be heard from again.
Thanks to the Austin Powers movies, "shag" has a whole other connotation now. My British aunt tells a story of the strange look she got when she asked one of my uncle's (her husband) male friends, "What time shall we come round to knock you up?" Again, a whole other meaning here in the States.