Stagecoach

Is that an American thing, or were 'ours' also stagecoaches?

Google time.

Mail Coach

Originally jock cutthroat operators

November explanation.

I saw the term used somewhere on Wiki yesterday, with reference to a place in England.

Possibly on this page.

I wondered at the time if the term was technically accurate.

I suspect, maybe wrongly, that a stagecoach is an American doings. Wells Fargo and Doris Day and all that, isn't it?

Waggon & Horses or Coaches & Horses again ?

Behave!

I'm trying to find where I saw it.

I'm also in a Dickensian mood.

Familiar images of the stagecoach in Great Britain are that of a Royal Mail coach passing through a turnpike gate, a Dickensian passenger coach covered in snow pulling up at a coaching inn, and a highwayman demanding a coach to "stand and deliver". The yard of ale drinking glass is associated by legend with stagecoach drivers, though was mainly used for drinking feats and special toasts.[3][4]



In't Wiki daft?

Dickens cider jokes abound.

Enough!

This thread is brought to you by the number twelvety and my new wotd for today; thoroughbrace.

That sounds like a good name for some Dickensian sort.

Miss Thoroughbrace.

I like that.

Will hockey sticks be employed?

Jolly good!

Miss Thoroughbrace and her corsets are my fantasy, so sod off.

Passengers crowded into coaches caused conditions that prompted Wells Fargo to post these rules in each coach for passenger behavior:

Abstinence from liquor is requested, but if you must drink share the bottle. To do otherwise makes you appear selfish and unneighborly.

If ladies are present, gentlemen are urged to forego smoking cigars and pipes as the odor of same is repugnant to the gentler sex. Chewing tobacco is permitted, but spit with the wind, not against it.

Gentlemen must refrain from the use of rough language in the presence of ladies and children.

Buffalo robes are provided for your comfort in cold weather. Hogging robes will not be tolerated and the offender will be made to ride with the driver.

Don't snore loudly while sleeping or use your fellow passenger's shoulder for a pillow; he or she may not understand and friction may result.

Firearms may be kept on your person for use in emergencies. Do not fire them for pleasure or shoot at wild animals as the sound riles the horses.

In the event of runaway horses remain calm. Leaping from the coach in panic will leave you injured, at the mercy of the elements, hostile Indians and hungry coyotes.

Forbidden topics of conversation are: stagecoach robberies and Indian uprisings.

Gents guilty of unchivalrous behavior toward lady passengers will be put off the stage. It's a long walk back. A word to the wise is sufficient.[12]



Wiki

You'd be doing some walking!

Aye straight to the nearest bordello to see Miss Thoroughbrace.

She's not like that really. She's a Pastor's daughter.

Phew...Had to check my spelling on that last post.

You should worry. I've had some quiet reflection and decided where my naughty thoughts originate.

The Duchess And The Dirtwater Fox.

Used to think the girl who played Private Benjamin on the TV series was stunning, never much of a been a fan of Miss Hawn. (She played the same character in the movie of the same name)


Just had me one of them there Googles, and iscovered her name is Lorna Patterson





What I didn't know is she is the singer/guitarist on Airplane the Movie, she kept knocking the drip out of the young man's arm.

See 17:33

Then find an example of an English stagecoach. If such a doings existed.

You already have!

Yes, yes, yes. We can all do that.

Has the word become a generic term?

Would a coach driver in 1784 know what you were talking about if you asked about a stagecoach.?

Yes, he wouldn't know what a double decker Dennis was though.

Just you wait 'til Mache sees that.

And on my thread too.

Is it a misnomer when used to describe an english mail coach?

Info

His Majesty's Coach was called a'Forgon'.

Do you thnk Victoria Coren would accept that from you?

What a conclusion!

I seem to have managed to pulll some wool over your eyes with my last post...Or did I?

Conclusion?

They could just be being retrospectively described as stagecoaches.

That's an website, not a proper first hand handbill or a very early copy of the Yellow Pages.

Find me something more sbstantial.

I can't find owt.

It's also from Canada.

His Majesty's Coach was called a'Forgon'.

Conclusion.

BOTTOM!

See them Dalmatians?

They're called 'coach dogs' over here. (Not stagecoach dogs)

Yet in Americaland, they're callled fire house dogs.

We call um currant cake dogs,

As long as you don't start calling them Stagecoach Dogs, you'll do for me, Bentlegs.

Saw a load of Stagecoach dogs on Telly not long ago, just over a Hundred of them there were.

Them was greyhound buses.

farsands of them.

Not seen the Deadwood Stage for a while.

A wheel will have come off it. Be in the (stagecoach) hospital being (temporarily) mended

I had hoped for a medical quip regarding potency.

But never mind.

Ask Darren

I said/typed 'quip', Mache.

It was a rushed comment whilst I await the K.G.B.

You've more chance of getting the DFC and bar.

Or the KFC on Ince Bar.

I've had a warning from deputy dawg I am told

Can muskrats write?