>From: Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: Varon
>Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 06:12:59 -0800
>
>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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