[1] In more recent years, the phrase has also been applied to persons attending music gigs, going on business trips and fishing holidays.
In contrast, Rugby for Dummies describes the phrase as meaning that particularly funny, embarrassing, or debauched moments are for consumption only by the tourists themselves and not casual listeners back home.
[4] It is believed that the phrase originated in 1970 during an overseas rugby union trip, and quickly cascaded into many other sporting codes such as cricket and football.
[10] American singer Mike Doughty listed the concept as number four of his "Rules of the Road", and the reason he wasn't going to tell stories of debauchery, drug abuse, and sexual exploits.
Author Trev Wilkins wrote in his gigging and touring guide that the concept "is a kind of unwritten rule",[13] and that the professional gigger should never "destroy the trust" of coworkers by telling tales of their "crazy and out-of-character" activities.