atdtda: 31 - pg 866

[Bekah]

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866.3  Gorblimey
descriptive of a working class person or his condition, ‘My old man’s  
a dustman, He wears a dustman’s hat, He wears gorblimey trousers, And  
he lives in a council flat.  Gorblimey = cor - blimey
http://cgi.peak.org/~jeremy/retort.cgi?British=gorblimey

Interjection: gorblimey  gor'blImee
Usage: Brit
Used to express surprise
- crikey [Brit], cor [Brit], crumbs [Brit], gosh, golly, by George,  
by Jove, blimey [Brit], cor blimey [Brit], my, holy cow, holy  
mackerel, holy smoke, holy moley, holy moly, fancy [Brit], goodness,  
goodness me, Gordon Bennett, gracious, gracious me, fancy that, god,  
my word, oh, O, ah, oh boy, jeez, geez, strewth [Brit], struth  
[Brit], yikes, I'll be blowed
http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/GORBLIMEY


866.6  Jenny Invert
The inverted Jenny (or Jenny Invert) is a United States postage stamp  
first issued on May 10, 1918 in which the image of the Curtiss JN-4  
airplane in the center of the design was accidentally printed upside- 
down; it is probably the most famous error in American philately.  
Only 100 of the inverts were ever found, making this error one of the  
most prized in all philately; an inverted Jenny was sold at a Robert  
A. Siegel auction in November 2007 for US$977,500.[1] A block of four  
inverted Jennys was also sold at a Robert A. Siegel auction in  
October 2005 for US$2.7m.[2] In December of 2007, a mint, never  
hinged example, meaning one not previously affixed to a stamp album,  
was sold to an unidentified Wall Street executive for $825,000.[3]  
The broker of the sale says the buyer is a collector who lost the  
auction the previous month mentioned above.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_Jenny

ME:  needless to say it reminds me of Pierce Inverarity

866.6   Newmarket
A market town in Suffolk
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newmarket


866.8  Nether Wallop, Hants
cute little town in the Hants county of Suffolk, Hampshire
http://www.francisfrith.com/search/england/hampshire/nether+wallop/ 
photos/

866.9-.10  Inanimate Bird Association
clay bird shooters, concerned with clay pigeons, i.e., trapshooting.
http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_864-891

866.17  rather shirty
(British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/shirty

866.22-.23    the key also changes day to day
A code depending upon changes in the starting point for shifts in the  
text (e.g a book with a different starting page depending on the  
date, groups of letters that change starting with a different letter  
every day)is considered unbreakable unless one knows the starting  
point, called the Key.
http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_864-891

866.27 Oca ti jebem
Macedonian: I fuck your father.
http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_864-891

example:   "In other words, these Monteniggers are Serbs who act and  
talk like Bosnians, and don't like to be called Serbs. If you call  
them "Hey, you Serb!" most likely the answer will be "Oca ti jebem!".
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Serbia

866.38-.39 Giles Piprake
Good name for the guy because he apparently rakes in information like  
a little goat (scavenges)
Giles - a rare male name - means "little goat."
Pip - small again   (and lots of other definitions)
Rake -  a gatherer - of leaves or the casino draw,
	     a somewhat immoral person,  a libertine and lots of other  
definitions)
A pipkrake is a narrow spike of ice that grows upward from a body of  
groundwater in freezing weather, carrying a portion of soil on its  
top surface. Here are a photo and discussion; note that the caption  
has the misspelling piprake!
http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_864-891
(and elsewhere)


Bekah





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