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Re: Kate questions

From: v115p8d6@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (she listens like her head's on fire..)
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 15:29:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Kate questions
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In article <C7z40s.JA9@chinet.chinet.com>, jorn@chinet.chinet.com (Jorn Barger) writes...
>Bob Krovetz fires the startingpistol for a new round of 
>rec.music.gaffa.jeopardy:
>  
>4. What is the expression "I'll just put in the boot"? ("Fullhouse")
> 
>Boot the nagging voices out of her head, is what I hear.  The song is
>pretty upbeat at this point, so suicide seems unlikely.

Boot(UK)...same thing as the trunk(US) of a car. A place to store things.


>9. What is "baccy"? (`The stink of cologne and baccy, and all their Yankee 
>hash') (Pull Out the Pin)
> 
>Baccy's tobacco, but what's Yankee hash?  Army rations, probably? (Americans 
>didn't bring hashish *into* Vietnam!)

Yankee hash is referring to marijuana I would think. They might not have
brought it *into* Vietnam but some of them certainly smoked it.

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