Re: nobody gives a damn about the UFOs .. / I heard one

Alex Block (ablock@FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU)
Fri, 22 Mar 1996 10:37:28 -0600

>One of the local legends, from Liverpool, extensively documennted at the
>turn of the century , is of a character called "Spring Heeled Jack" . He
>was seen leaping the roofs of the Everton area of the city in the late
>1890's . This used to be row upon row of terraced housing marching up the
>hillside from the docks , I remember it like that as a kid.
>
>Apparently , Jack , was described as tall and lanky , with greyish skin
>and eyes like saucers , giving off a smell of brimstone.When seen or
>approached he ran away in big bounding strides , often leaping onto
>and across roofs to make his escape!
>
>Sound a familiar description - grey skin - tall - big eyes ??

No, no, Graz, _blue_ skin. That must have been The Tick ;)

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Alex (ablock@facstaff.wisc.edu)
ale, beer. Both words are more than 1,000 years old, and seem originally
to have been used as synonyms for the liquor made from fermented malt.
They were distinguished when _beer_ was appropriated to the kind brewed
with an infusion of hops, first imported in the 16th c. This distinction
has now disappeared; _beer_ has become a generic word comprising all malt
liquors except stout and porter, though brewers still call some of their
products _ales_, especially with a distinguishing adjective, e.g. _pale_,
_brown_, _rustic_, _audit_. In ordinary use, as at table, _beer_ is the
natural word; _ale_ has a flavour of genteelism.