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Re: the meaning of gunzel
- Subject: Re: the meaning of gunzel
- From: "Ted Gay" <tedgay@bigpond.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 09:04:18 +1000
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: Telstra BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.com)
- References: <3AD70E6B.6139@netlink.com.au>
- Reply-To: "Ted Gay" <tedgay@bigpond.com>
- Xref: news1.unite.net.au aus.rail:34943
"<Type your name here>" <csinn@netlink.com.au> wrote in message
3AD70E6B.6139@netlink.com.au">news:3AD70E6B.6139@netlink.com.au...
> I heard on ABC news radio today that the meaning of Gunzel derives from
> the fact that in the olden days of rail fanning the old guys who used
> chase the steam trains called the new railfans that were only interested
> in the diesels "gunzels". In hebrew the word gunzel means goose, there
> fore the new, inexperianced railfans were gooses or silly for hat they
> did?
>
> what do you think
It proves that you shouldn't believe everything you read in/hear on the
media. Once all rail fans were hebrew speaking Jews? the mind boggles!
Was the program a repeat from 1st April?
Ted