Klarinet Archive - Posting 000056.txt from 2000/02

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gaffs
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 21:55:46 -0500

--- Tony Pay <Tony@-----.uk> wrote:

> By the way, if you look up 'gaff' in the dictionary, you get:
> 1: a spear used in taking fish
> 2: the spar along the top of a fore-and-aft sail

> If you look up 'gaffe', you get
> a social blunder

> .....but I knew what it (ie, "Rien implied that his gaff was
> intentional"), *meant*;-)

Oh bugger. I was afraid somebody would catch that!

-- Neil
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