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From: (Mike Dana)
Subject: Re: CROWMER-FIENNES c. 1450
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 20:39:09 GMT
References: <3ab12f17_2@binarykiller.newsfeeds.com>, <AMes6.12$2d7.48@typhoon.nyu.edu>, <gilmore-ED91CB.10393316032001@News>


On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:39:33 -0500, Phyllis Gilmore <>
wrote:

>In article <AMes6.12$>, Paul J Gans
><> wrote:
>
>> I would like to remind readers of these newsgroups that "pogue"
>> is a US Naval slang term for homosexual. It's usage as such
>> goes back at least to the First World War.
>
>Just as an interesting side note, a retired naval captain of my
>acquaintance cannot recall ever even hearing the word in her 27 years in
>the Navy. But then, unlike a certain person we could name, she is and
>has always been an officer and a lady. Perhaps that makes all the
>difference.

I doubt it. Dad was a CPO (like most non-coms, neither an officer nor
a "gentleman") on a Sub Tender in the Pacific during the Korean war,
and he says he's never heard of it, either.

--Mike Dana
Everett, Washington, U. S. A.
"If you pound it in, It'll squish out."
--Tom Barnts, 11 July, 2000

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