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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