Re: Aspel distribution clarification

[chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (chris williams)]

Broadcasting from Planet Jorn:
>(Ron, I can't find the Gaffa-movie reference.  I thought Andy would have
>offered it.  As I recall, sometime last year (?) a UK fan posted a long
>theory that related the plot to an old British movie with "Gaffe" (??) in
>the title, about having to get pregnant to get an inheritance.)

   The film was called "Blowing the Gaff" (one of the phrases used in
the O.E.D. in the definition of the word "gaff".) This phrase seemed
really obscure, but in the film "The Crying Game" the female IRA member
(Miranda Richardson?) askes the lead if he "...blew the gaff."


                          Chris Williams of
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