Holding up a mirror...
Mike Weaver
mikeweaver at gn.apc.org
Sun Sep 28 06:17:53 CDT 2003
|Joe wrote:
>By the way, in the U.S. the term "townies" refers to blue collar
>natives. In my world, Zoyd and his occasional coworkers would be considered
>townies.
Yea well where I come from it means those folks whose lives end with the
pavement, and for whom the smell of petrol is preferable to that of cow
muck - unless you live somewhere like Cambridge where the contrast is town
and gown, not that I ever heard the uni bods referred to as 'gownies'.
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