HW: everything there is to know

[M Holmes]

HERBERT119 at delphi.com writes:

> On 30-MAR-1996 10:03:56.2 BOC-L said to HERBERT119
>    >On 30 Mar 96 HERBERT119 at DELPHI.COM wrote about Re: HW: everything
>    >there is to know:
>    >> "Over The Top" - I know I'm missing something here - "Hey, Kitchener
>    >- don' t
>    >> you know that mustaches went out with the Beatles"? It's obvious
>    >that the > song basically refers to war, but... "gimme white feather",
>    >etc, etc..., I > don't know.
>    >I think you'll find it's "Gimme white powder" ....
>
> White powder? "Strung on barbed wire", Paul?? Never, never... :)

That's one for the references file: in the UK during WWI it was a
tradition to hand a white feather to a young man who hadn't
"volunteered" to sign up and fight in the war.  The white feather was
supposed to denote cowardice.


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