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Re: Kate questions

From: johnz@eaglet.rain.com (John Zimmer)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 23:28:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Kate questions
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Organization: Quagmire Annex
References: <m0o0SLt-000ilhC@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu>

chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (chris williams) writes:

>In article <2A640ACE9D5F80E775@cs.umass.EDU> Bob Kovitz writes:

>>2. What is "The Sweeny" (`He'll never make the Sweeny' in "Wow")

>   Presumably a higher class theatre than the one he's currently
>playing.

My understanding of this line was as a reference to a British TV 
police drama called 'The Sweeney'; i.e., his career will never
really take off.  Can anybody from the UK corroborate?

John Zimmer
johnz@eaglet.rain.com