Hi and Welcome to Ruth, Finally another Canadian! Though a westerner. =3D). Only guessing, most= people with sympatico addresses live west of Ontario. Emily Wrote: Isn't it funny how when you hear about something that you haven't heard about before you keep hearing about it? Only last week my Australian studies teacher was talking about "Press Gangs" (the origional meaning of the word) and they also featured in "Tom Jones" >From me (Oliver) : We had a theory about this, that you only notice because you know/have something to do with the reference. When I got an Airdale dog for my 10th Birthday, we didn't see them hardly ever. But we noticed them all the time afterwards, and even now, 15 years later in a foriegn country I still notice Airdales. Ben died in 1992, aged 9. So you probably had heard the word PressGang befor but paid no attention to it, because it had no resonance with you. And now for something completly different : Haven't been around for a while, watch out for that Kevin dude, he is always frisky at this time of the month. Pre-Lunar tension all round. Oliver (still wading through 103 emails) in Qu=E9bec City -- 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" |