PA casting, pneumatic

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Thanks for the info on C. Bale, Catherine and everyone.  I've 
> seen Branagh's Henry V but have no particular recollection of the 
boy. 
>  I agree with Heidi that a child actor who's kept his sanity and 
> decency intact (if he has) is a good person to have on set.  Maybe 
> they should hire him as Official Mentor if not as Lupin.
> 
> Catherine wrote:
>  
> > Neil, that is inspired!  I wonder if Mrs Figg chain smokes too?  
OK, 
> > keeping the soap theme, how about Sarah Lancashire as Rosmerta, 
or 
> > perhaps Letitia Dean? Although neither are as attractive as I 
> imagine 
> > Rosmerta to be, they both have a certain pneumatic quality that 
> would 
> > appeal to many heterosexual men...
> 
> Ooh, please please define pneumatic for me and solve a 20-year 
> mystery!  This has been bothering me since I was 12 and read Brave 
New 
> World, where the woman keeps using this adjective for herself, not 
for 
> tires.  The latter is the only definition any person or dictionary 
was 
> able to give me.  
> 
> Amy Z
> who aspires to one day be known as Amy the Sexy Vicar

Well, I guess a polite way of putting it would be to say that it 
describes a substantial inflation of a woman's upper torso!  
Pneumatic, as in pumped up!

(I think!)

Catherine