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#13519 01/09/01 10:12 AM
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I suspect the origins for all of these (and this style of humour) are found in Lunnon English.

Earlier and further north, surely? Wasn't Little John the biggest of Robin Hood's men?


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why would you buy a ticket to fly somewhere on an airline whose very name guarantees it won't go all the way?

The cheap Australian alternative is to travel on Impulse. I'm not sure this is much more reassuring.

(and BTW Bluey is in no danger of dying out. Believe me, I know - my stepson is red-headed!)


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I don't think the word "Bluey" is dying out - my youngest children, aged 3 and 4, recently were given a ginger kitten, and were allowed to choose his name themselves. Yup you guessed it: "Blue". Maybe it is intrinsic to human nature to choose opposites as names - when asked by Dutch friends to explain why the cat is called Blue, they shrug and say "He's red, so he's 'Blue' "


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airline whose very name guarantees it won't go all the way?

Oh, no wow! The name merely guarantees that it hasn't been there before.



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I suspect the origins for all of these (and this style of humour) are found in Lunnon English.

Could be so, but the only usage of "blue" that I am aware of is C19 thieves cant for lead (ve metal, not wot yer puts rahnd ve neck of yer dawg!)




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>The name merely guarantees that it hasn't been there before.

Sounds very apt for the trains then, if not the aeroplanes!


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