A furphy is a galvanized tin and steel water cart. During the First War,
troops would gather around them and exchange gossip. Hence 'furphies'.
Or so it's said. Made by J.Furphy & Co. Joseph Furphy wrote Such is Life
(as Tom Collins):'temper democratic; bias, offensively Australian'.
Caleb
>Whatever a furphy is, it's no furphy that a soso
>play can be used as a scaffold for an interesting
>evening of theater. As to the rest, we can assert
>at each other with no end in sight.
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