From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
> Bueno - great find, Dominic!
Got it for 50p in a charity shop in Wilton not long ago.
The Dormouse Not The Fox
Credit where there's credit due.
<snarl>
An Offended and Unrecognised Bookrunner.
[Bought a copy of +Political Insults+ for another 50p in the same place,
read it, and ran it a few doors down to a place sometimes known, for reasons
I'd better not go into, as The Perv's Paradise, where I swapped it for a £2
copy of Beatrix Potter's +The Tale of Tom Kitten+.
300% profit, but not enough in actual cash to persuade me that I should give
up my day job.
Lt. Cnl. Academic Rdnt (rtd.) ]
>> In +Service Slang+ (1943), collected by J.L.Hunt and A.G.Pringle, we
>> have:
>>
>> DOOLALLY: Very drunk or temporarily insane, without distinction.
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