Re: Varon

Blued..."bruised", maybe?  Or perhaps "scandalized"?
(I'm thinking of a dirty joke as being "blue".)  These
are just stabs in the dark.  Stabbing into the blue
blood of an Bolian (Trekker alert!)

Clint


--- Almaran Dungeonmaster <dungeonmaster@...>
wrote:
> Roger Mills wrote:
> >
> > Her eldest son went to Boodle's and White's
> [upper-class clubs]
> > Her second son blued everything and fled--
> > But imagine the Duchess's feelings,
> > When her youngest son went Red."
> >
> > I don't think I was mis-hearing "blew", which is
> US usage.  I think I've
> > encountered this use of "blue"in, perhaps, Evelyn
> Waugh.
>
> I am sure you understood it correctly. If we look
> closely, we see that each
> son is identified by a color: the oldest went to
> WHITE's, the second BLUEd
> everything and the last one went RED... I don't know
> the context of this
> poem, but it looks like a heavy form of symbolism to
> me (they are the colors
> of the British flag, for instance).
>
> Maarten

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