peterson@vaxwrk.DEC (Bob Peterson) (07/08/85)
I dunno what net.motss'ers rules are on bringing cross references from other nets are, but I'll take a stab. net.nlang (natural languages) had this note fly by... < Newsgroups: net.nlang < Path: decwrl!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!cstvax! < edcaad!pete < Subject: Re: Re: Corrupted Signs < Posted: Wed Jul 10 23:35:32 1985 < Organization: Architecture, Edinburgh U., Scotland < < < Then there is a pub that used to be frequented by Edinburgh's < homosexual population (maybe still is, I'm not going to go and < find out). It was called : < The Laughing Duck < but then someone painted a y on the end. < Pete So, not being much more familiar with that area's jargon than what one can catch on PBS, how much of a slander am I about to ignore? \bob usenet: decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-vaxwrk!peterson /\ arpa: peterson%vaxwrk.DEC@decwrl.ARPA arpa: @decwrl.ARPA:peterson@vaxwrk.DEC
hartwell@Shasta.ARPA (07/09/85)
> < Then there is a pub that used to be frequented by Edinburgh's > < homosexual population (maybe still is, I'm not going to go and > < find out). It was called : > < The Laughing Duck > < but then someone painted a y on the end. > < Pete > So, not being much more familiar with that area's jargon than what one can > catch on PBS, how much of a slander am I about to ignore? Well, it's somewhat derisive, but life is too short to care about things like that. And it's amusing, by virtue of the fact that the term "ducky" is sometimes used as an endearing term of the cloying quality of "sweetie pie". More interesting was the bar in San Francisco called "The Balcony". Then the letter "C" fell off, leaving it to spell "The Balony". -- Steve Hartwell, Computer Science Lab, Stanford University {ucbvax,decvax}!decwrl!csl-vax!hartwell, hartwell@SU-Shasta.ARPA