Re: houdini

[tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)]

In article <930226205831_555063.0_CHL78-1@CompuServe.COM>, 
MJM@ZYLAB.MHS.CompuServe.COM (Mike Mendelson) writes:
>                      I'd catch the cues,
>                      Watching you,
>                      Hoping you'd do something wrong.
> 
> This is where I start to
> lose it.  What is she referring
> to here?  The cues of Houdini
> as he is about to perform a trick?
> Well, why would she hope something
> go wrong?  Or has she started to refer
> to the medium in second person, suddenly,
> thus hoping that *he*'d do something
> wrong?  I'm a little puzzled.  Help.

It's "queues."  In British usage, a queue is a line, as in a line of people.  
This is a reference to spectators lined up, secretly hoping something goes 
wrong in the trick.

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