Sujet : Re: Snow Was: Smoking. Was: Clarke Award Finalists 2001
De : psperson (at) *nospam* old.netcom.invalid (Paul S Person)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.writtenDate : 27. Jun 2025, 16:47:47
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 17:42:34 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
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bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
On 6/26/25 12:32, William Hyde wrote:
Paul S Person wrote:
<snippo -- reference is to "Senior Service" as the British Navy and a
cigarette brand>
Very likely. Cigs for tars, how nice.
>
Tars for tars.
The ads were more about officer-class types, officer class being in
those early days always upper class as well.
>
Well of course they were upper class in most nations as why would
entrust a peasant with an expensive ship and crew.
Education was not evenly distributed then or now.
Just a note: I rather think William Hyde's point is that they were for
/officers/, not tars (who were common seamen).
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