[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: More Fug! (-groan-)

[Amanda Lewanski]

Neil Ward wrote:

> To me it was the aftermath of the "puff of green smoke" - a warm,
> smoky, noxious, stifling cloud (like tobacco smoke in a pub?).  It was
> a word in my memory that presented itself to me as the right one for
> the occasion.  I must have picked up that usage from somewhere!
> Dickens, perhaps?

And here I thought that with all these thunderclaps and puffs of smoke,
you might simply have been backfiring. You might need a tune-up.

--Amanda
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