From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Tue Oct 13 16:58:26 1998 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) id QAA13526 for britdisc-outgoing; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:34:49 +0100 (BST) Received: from clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk (root@clover-fddi [137.205.4.2]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA13502 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:34:46 +0100 (BST) Received: from tgis.co.uk (galahad.tgis.co.uk [195.188.4.6]) by clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA04616 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:34:42 +0100 (BST) Received: from syscap.com (p025.5399-1.saturn.ispc.net [212.46.128.45]) by tgis.co.uk (8.8.7/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA24497 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:21:26 +0100 Posted-Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:21:26 +0100 Received: from [195.188.6.81] by syscap.com Tue, 13 Oct 98 16:07:38 +0100 X-Sender: pharvey@195.188.6.1 Message-Id: <v02130522b2491ea23b72@[195.188.6.81]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:18:58 +0100 To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk From: pharvey@syscap.com (Peter Harvey) Subject: Taking the Gypsies? Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk >enough already. I wished to use the phrase 'up shit creek without a paddle' to >recall a time when one club team dominated British Ultimate. Since that team >happened to be Shotgun, I used the word 'Shotgun' as an alternative to 'shit'. >Mere playfulness. We use Chevron as rhyming slang... "I'll be with you in a second, I just have to take a Chevron..." It ranks highly alongside "Lesley", "Jimmy" and "Gypsies". mere playfulness, natch. Harv