Re: Nelson strikes again!
- From: Jim Lawton <ucan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:30:15 GMT
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:17:38 +0100, "Mike Lyle"
<mike_lyle_uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Trescothick has just been bowled out facing his 111th ball. English
>cricket has a superstition about anything which can be numbered
>"111", called "Nelson", or "222", "Double Nelson". The figure refers,
>somewhat inaccurately, to the bits missing from the Admiral -- he
>didn't, in fact, lose a leg. Perhaps Jolly Jack reckoned it was only
>a matter of time. Partridge says it used to mean "One pound, one
>shilling and one penny", and puts it down to bank staff, with a
>vernacular reference to Nelson's one eye, one arm, and one arsehole.
>
>I don't know if the multiples retain their evil reputation all the
>way up, though.
Well 666 isn't well liked is it? Something about a bus?
--
Jim
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reproducing at bacterial levels, almost as an
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