[UA] N.E.S.W.

[Loki Carbis]

>>Sorry, meant to ask: is there a reason why people in the US are said to be
'up
>>North' if they're behind bars? Put that together with 'going West' (slang
for
>>dying), 'going South' (when your plans screw up), and something to do with
>>'going east' and you've got the components of sime kind of weird
teleportation
>>device. Or maybe not. Hey, look, it's 7:30 and I haven't slept yet. ;-)
>Actually, the only one of those I've heard is "it went south."  Now,
>there's "Go west, young man."  There's "South of the Border, West of the
>Sun" and "North by Northwest," but those aren't really slang phrases.


        IIRC, "gone west" is WWI era British pilot slang for dead.  I don't
know precisely what it means - but you gotta figure it had something to do
with Germany being East of them.


Loki
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