To: elc
A fag could be a cigarette or from what I remember from Tom Browns Schooldays,,,one of the lower boys who does errands for 6th form students in public school.
2,298 posted on
07/21/2005 1:26:36 PM PDT by
mware
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To: mware
"Tom Brown's Schooldays"
Not just for 'running errands' but for relieving the hormone generated pressure from which those 6th. form-ers occasionally suffered. A tradition that was more honored in the breach than in the observance I believe, but it did give birth to the term 'silly bugger'.
I have wondered whether it was the root of the contemporary use of the term 'fag', but have never been able to find out. Any of you literary types know?
2,313 posted on
07/21/2005 1:40:48 PM PDT by
Westerby
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