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Re: What does gaffa means anyway?

From: chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (chris williams)
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 93 15:52 CDT
Subject: Re: What does gaffa means anyway?
To: love-hounds@uunet.UU.NET
In-Reply-To: <m0oUrrJ-000NnEC@zoodle.robin.de>
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Organization: FCIA Univ. of Chicago

In article <m0oUrrJ-000NnEC@zoodle.robin.de> you write:
>> Can a kind soul explain to a non-native english speaker what does "gaffa" 
>
>> actually means? My Harraps french/english dictionnary doesn't help
>> me to solve the enigma.
>
>"gaffa" (Suspended in Gaffa) means "gaffer's tape". Gaffers are those people
>that tape the cables to the floor etc. when a movie is made. This tape might
>also be used to hold people off from going somewhere ('police lines'?)

    HAH!

   (Is it time for the yearly "what does 'gaffa' mean" arguement yet?)


                          Chris Williams of
                             Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago
                               chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (his)
                                 vickie@njin.rutgers.edu      (hers)
                                   katefans@chinet.chinet.com (ours)