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And sorry to p*ss on your chips, but there are a whole host of origins for this phrase, none more credible or substantiated than any other.
Quote: from Aranalde on 10:49 am on June 7, 2007[br]But no chips, hopefully
I used to love Chips. I always wanted to be the one with the dark hair as he always seemed to get the girls and the other one looked a bit weedy if you ask me. Cool sunglasses though.
Based in a city trading room during the 1980s, Phil Sonia was a successful broker but was hiding an addiction to gambling on Roulette. He was less successful in the casinos than in share dealings, and he embezzled well over a million pounds before being caught.
Auditors investigating the theft printed off huge sheets of transactions and marked up sums of money he had misappropriated with his name and what he had spent the money on…
P. Sonia – chips
Within weeks, executives throughout this firm and at other firms started using this phrase as a euphemism for suspected internal fraud and lo! a new term was coined. <br>
Quote: from Librettist on 11:44 am on June 7, 2007[br]
Quote: from Aranalde on 10:49 am on June 7, 2007[br]But no chips, hopefully
I used to love Chips. I always wanted to be the one with the dark hair as he always seemed to get the girls and the other one looked a bit weedy if you ask me. Cool sunglasses though.<br>
Poncherello I believe he was called
Here’s a Wikipedia article about the series. I love the bit about a "typical" episode.
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