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To: BenLurkin

What’s a hosepipe?


7 posted on 07/11/2025 5:36:00 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

I’m pretty sure in Winchester 73 starring Jimmy Stewart, when he goes to prison they tell the prisoners, “If you get out of line, we hosepipe you”. The guards were holding lengths of big black rubber hoses.


16 posted on 07/11/2025 5:47:33 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: Steve_Seattle
I've heard of a hawsepipe...


64 posted on 07/11/2025 8:12:51 PM PDT by Rio
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