some comments and a question

[Sojourner]

At 04:17 PM 9/16/97 BST, andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk wrote:

>Not a usage I was acquainted with - `balling' suggests it must be a
>yank term, if you get my drift (and pardon my French, as `twere) - but
>thanks for the demotic input all the same. As you say, language
>language language, lovely no matter how unsavoury (some of us may
>find) the subject.

Before I begin, once again, as I wipe off my chin, I have
the entire text if you want it quoted, as I hastily inscribed it
upon the clubhouse door using the blood of a preying mantis:

The OED has this wonderful slang use:

to ball the jack, to travel fast, to hurry; also in extended use. U.S. slang.

But who knows what us yanks will come up with?

	
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