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- From: rob@spencer.demon.co.uk (Robert Sadler)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!spencer.demon.co.uk!rob
- Subject: Re: Smeg again
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- References: <1joh5lINN60n@violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
- Organization: What Organisation?
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:04:24 +0000
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- In article <1joh5lINN60n@violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk> esrag@csv.warwick.ac.uk writes:
-
- >In article <727497614snz@socrates.demon.co.uk> jmb@socrates.demon.co.uk writes:
- >
- >>
- >>Someone told me POSH was an acronym of some sort also.
- >>
- >>--
- >>James Bridson, jmb@socrates.demon.co.uk
- >
- >I was told it stood for 'Port Out, Starboard Home' and it referred to the
- >best side of a ship/cruiser/liner in Ye Olde days of the British Empire.
- >
- >It's probably total crap, though!
- >
- >Cheers,
- >
- >Bill.
- >
- >
- >--
- >|**** Bill Wright ****| esrag@csv.warwick.ac.uk | es770@eng.warwick.ac.uk
- > |
- >| Dept of Engineering |==============Red Dwarf quote of the
- > day================|
- >|University of Warwick|"Is that what I think it is ?" "What d'you think it
- > is?"|
- >| Coventry England UK |"An orange whirly thing in space !" "It's a time hole."
- > |
- >
- Actually not total crap - on the run to australia the sun was always on
- the same side of the ship for the whole journey - starboard on the way
- out and port on the way home. Thus anyone able to afford a (cool)
- cabin was marked down as Port Out Starboard Home.
- --
- Rob Sadler rob@spencer.demon.co.uk
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