Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site Shasta.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!Glacier!Shasta!hartwell From: hartwell@Shasta.ARPA Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: Is this an insult? Message-ID: <6758@Shasta.ARPA> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 21:31:33 EDT Article-I.D.: Shasta.6758 Posted: Mon Jul 8 21:31:33 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 07:26:33 EDT References: <3024@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: Stanford University Lines: 19 > < Then there is a pub that used to be frequented by Edinburgh's > < homosexual population (maybe still is, I'm not going to go and > < find out). It was called : > < The Laughing Duck > < but then someone painted a y on the end. > < Pete > So, not being much more familiar with that area's jargon than what one can > catch on PBS, how much of a slander am I about to ignore? Well, it's somewhat derisive, but life is too short to care about things like that. And it's amusing, by virtue of the fact that the term "ducky" is sometimes used as an endearing term of the cloying quality of "sweetie pie". More interesting was the bar in San Francisco called "The Balcony". Then the letter "C" fell off, leaving it to spell "The Balony". -- Steve Hartwell, Computer Science Lab, Stanford University {ucbvax,decvax}!decwrl!csl-vax!hartwell, hartwell@SU-Shasta.ARPA