Thursday, June 3, 2004, 5:23:09 AM, Omar Kusturica wrote: OK> Thanks. I liked "big wig." Could it be used as form of OK> address ? "Bossy Boots" also is not bad. I did hint some of it was out of date. But I hadn't noticed "big wig"; it's actually bigwig (yes, it's nice). "Bossy boots" isn't exactly something you'll hear on every street corner, either. Probably the idea behind the list is simply that visitors will know what these terms mean if they come across them. I am now reading Thinks to find out why Lodge has someone say "fuzz" for police; but it's a real plod; it's really inept of Lodge to give Messenger those "what's happening in UK universities" speeches. (I suppose if you don't know what's happening, it might be more interesting) But at least he did it. (Lodge is the only one of the campus novelists, to my knowledge, who's taken part in a national union demo + lobby of parliament re cuts in government funding of universities. But I suppose the others could have been there. -- Best regards, Judy mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html