Subject: Re: rookeries
Date: Feb 23 15:53:36 1996
From: PAGODROMA at aol.com - PAGODROMA at aol.com


>In England, your idle musings might land you in jail! "Shaggery", based on
>the slang verb "Shag", could be an alternate word for a brothel.
>
>At a stretch, "Puffinery" could also substitute for public house, a place
>where many go to "puff on their fags" and drink beer.
>
>

"buggery?"
....oops, ...that was intended for the PNW 'Insect' BB
....you had to know 'that' was coming.

I meant to add that a friend and colleague from Western Australia with whom
I've sailed with in the Southern Ocean way back in another era, liked to muse
about his sailings onboard the Russian whale factory ship, named, the
"Buggeroff". Not sure of the correct spelling, but it was pronounced exactly
as that. ...Hence the *end* of commercial whaling, and I think for *that*
reason alone, rather than the more conventionally accepted one. :))

So here we are, heading down another one of those slippery slopes again, huh.


-- R...-san