Re: Falling Masonry?
- From: roy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ("Roy Stockdill")
- Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 22:34:38 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Eve McLaughlin <eve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >"Gun Tavern, Billingsgate - Samuel Mayoss respectfully informs his Friends,
> >and the Public in general that, the Gun Tavern has sustained no injury
> >whatever from the late dreadful fire at Billingsgate, and likewise thanks
> >them for their kind enquiries of yesterday. A fine Green Turtle dressed
> >this day."
> >
> >What does the last sentence mean? Was this some kind of coded masonic
>
> Nah - he is just cashing in on the fact of a local fire to get some free
> newspaper publicity, in form of a 'news' item.
> Effectivly, 'reports that my pub was damaged in the fire are rubbish;
> PS, the menu features baked turtle, boiled turtle, turtle soup, turtle
> pudding; turtle salad, for the foreseeable future! come and eat it
> before it goes off'.>
Sounds a bit like the 19th century equivalent of "spam, spam, spam,
spam, spam, spam and spam..."
Roy Stockdill
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