> This leads to a very important question. What is the origin of the word gunzel? I was once told
> that it came from a Humphrey Bogart movie where he said " I hired a gunman not a gunzel". To this
> I was lead to believe that gunzel was an American slang word for a retard. I would be interested
> to hear what others think may be the origin of this now famous word that is in every rail fans
> dictionary.
This was debated at length before you got onto the internet in this very newsgroup.
Take a look at
http://search.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=gunzel+aus.rail&svcclass=dnold&DBS=1&defaultOp=AND&maxhits=20&ST=QS&format=terse&site=dn
Hopefully, we won't go through all the debate again.
-- David Johnson CityRail Guard trainman@ozemail.com.au http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/