[UA] N.E.S.W.

[Edward Parsons]

Go west...some link to the Egyptian land of the dead (westwards)?

I can't even hear the phrase "Go West" without breaking into that Pet Shop
Boy's song....



----- Original Message -----
From: "Loki Carbis" <unsworn at alphalink.com.au>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: [UA] N.E.S.W.


>
> >>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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