So I've just discovered. Is that widely used? It's the only meaning of 'bushwhacking' that I grew up with. I suspect one of the two main Aussie characters on BBC radio (Bill Kerr or Bentley) in the 1950s must have used it. COD10

It was a mild form of humour, Michael. One meaning ... tie back to the footpads, which are highwaymen, you see. So I've just discovered. Is that widely used? It's the only meaning of 'bushwhacking' that I grew up with. I suspect

"Non-white" would be usual in today's US. I don't know whether "colored" was ever used that much in the US to mean "non-white" as opposed to "black or known to be of sub-Saharan African descent".

We can't ignore the fact that even if some ... get involved in car crashes and industrial and other accidents. The evidence on driving is actually quite interesting. Despite several decades of increasingly desperate attempts to prove that

Do you say that strict discipline, housemasters, short trousers and manual labour are against the boys' human rights to-day? In the way that Borstals applied them, yes. Britain is no longer disciplinarian, except perhaps in the armed services,

Yes, alcohol is in a class to itself. It pervades ... hash, or opium. I've observed quite opposite effects, in fact. We can't ignore the fact that even if some drugs do not make the person taking them violent, some of those people do get

I quote from that site. "Borstal was a strange mixture ... completely illegal and contrary to the boys' human rights today. Do you say that strict discipline, housemasters, short trousers and manual labour are against the boys' human

By anyone's standards, this boy is whacko I don't see how jail time could do him any good, Some schizophrenics can be productive in a very useful way, like the Nobel prize winner (Nash?) who inspired the movie "It's a beautiful

I don't know. I don't know the overall answer. You have my phone number. (Joking about all the answers, if that isn't obvious.) Charles Riggs email address: chriggs/at/eircom/dot/net

Yes, but how often is it used? Not very often because it generally doesn't work; am I right, Judge Liebs? I haven't done any recent looking up of the numbers, but my recollection is that fewer than five percent of ... did not know right