humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

"Jeffrey Hamilton" wrote:

>
>"Eugene Griessel" wrote in message
>news:47d91989.16847035@news.uunet.co.za...
>> "Jeff" wrote:
>>
>>>>>"I myself went to a grammar school, where I got a very good education,
>>>>>especially when enjoying a fag behind the bike sheds together with the
>>>>>hooker of the house fifteen."
>>>>
>>>> Was it Harrow where they had a fire because the hooker of the house
>>>> fifteen left a fag burning?
>>>>
>>>
>>>If we are talking about Harrow, which is a public school (read expensive
>>>private school for US readers), then 'fag' has another totally different
>>>meaning!!
>>>
>>>I suspect that burning your 'boy servant' from the lower school would be
>>>frowned upon.
>>
>> I guess my allusion was too arcane. Imagine the fag was burning
>> because the house had run out of vaseline?
>>
>> Forget it - although it was the "not the nine o'clock" news gang who
>> made the joke originally. Or published it.
>>
>> BTW I suffered through a year of being a fag - so yes I know the
>> difference.
>>
>Still sore about it are you ? :)
>

Ooooh! What makth you think uth thailor boyth would object?

If you are referring to the twice daily canings, no.

Actually it was not too arduous. Mainly consisted of fetching and
cleaning. Didn't have too sadistic a prefect, so it was OK, I
suppose. And who am I to argue with tradition? If something has been
done for more than a century what's wrong with another years or two of
the same?

Eugene L Griessel

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