[PW] Sheffield Wednesday

[Bye, Dan J]

In which case, it looks like maybe the speaker has one of those humorous/irritating tendencies to forcibly cutesy up their speech - it's not just Wednesday, it's "Sheffield Wednesday", ha ha ha. Kind of nearly but not quite a pun. Probably every Wednesday is a "Sheffield Wednesday" and every Monday is a "Blue Monday"  I've not read the book, but I presume there's quite a bit of this kind of thing.  Of course, it also emphasises the Englishman in America thing.

Dan  

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> Cc: Fuller, Thomas ((US - Washington D.C.))
> Subject: Re: [PW] Sheffield Wednesday
> 
> 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>
> 
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