[PW] Sheffield Wednesday

[Simon Cauchi]

On 26/03/2008, at 8:00 AM, Fuller, Thomas ((US - Washington D.C.)) 
wrote:

> My current book on tape is LAUGHING GAS by P.G. Wodehouse.  In Chapter
> 3, one of the characters says (I think -- the tape is a little grainy)
> something like "six months from a Sheffield Wednesday".

I have checked the passage in the printed edition. It goes like this:

"Well, well, well," he said, "so you're here, are you, Reggie? Ages 
since I saw you last. Six months come Sheffield Wednesday, or 
thereabouts. What on earth are you doing in Hollywood?"

I read the two first chapters quickly and the third as far as this 
passage, but I can't offer any gloss on "Sheffield Wednesday", except 
that clearly (from the speaker's point of view) it's a Wednesday that's 
going to come in the not too distant future.

Simon Cauchi
<simon.cauchi at xtra.co.nz>