At 16:38 19/12/97 +1100, you wrote: >Hi Y'all, > >The list has gone a bit quiet of late. Could this be a sign that Uni has >ended (in Oz) and everyone has better things to do? Hmmmmm... Well, your half right in my case - uni has ended for me officially, but I've still been going in beecause I dont't have anything better to do (especially while I was waiting for news of my scholarship - had to keep busy to avoid a major anxiety episode) (plus I have plenty to do there). >I was leafing through the Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable recently >and came across (you guessed it) an entry for Press Gang. To paraphrase, >Press Gang was the name given to naval parties that travelled around seizing >men for military service. Hence, to be press-ganged into something is to be >forced to take part against one's will or inclination. Sullivan and Kerr, >therefore, press-ganged schoolkids on their last chance into staffing the >Junior Gazette (Frazz and Spike for example). >I presume that Steven Moffat had this double meaning in mind when he named >the series, but I never thought the title was supposed to mean anything >other than the obvious. Was anyone else aware of this? Nope, not I. I'd actually been meaning to find out what a "press-gang" was for a while, but never got around to it. Murray ********************************************************************** * Murray Head - muzza@omen.net.au * *Also at: muzza@tartarus.uwa.edu.au(Uni of Western Australia) * * mhead@anhb.uwa.edu.au (Dept of Anatomy and Human Biology) * *>>>>>>>>>>>>> http://www.omen.net.au/~muzza/ <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< * *********************************************************************** -- T H E P R E S S G A N G M A I L I N G L I S T By default, pressing 'reply' will send mail back to the list, not to the author of the message you're replying to. To unsubscribe, mail "unsubscribe" to "pressgang-request@lists.yoyo.org" |