IIRC, fourgon used to be the word for the closed black wagon in which condemned criminals were conveyed to the guillotine.
I don't know whether they ever switched to using Transit vans.....
IIRC, fourgon used to be the word for the closed black wagon in which condemned criminals were conveyed to the guillotine.
Fourgon simply means a van. Funnily enough it also means poker, as in hearth, which I suppose is where the four- comes from.
=============================================It's better to be hendubious than cocksure
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread,
But the angels are all in Heaven,
And few of the fools are dead
Nice.thirdcrank wrote: ↑28 Oct 2021, 12:07pm as James Thurber put it
It's better to be hendubious than cocksure
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The Second Coming W.B.Yeats, written in 1919, after WWI.And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Thanks, TC.thirdcrank wrote: ↑28 Oct 2021, 2:03pmHere's the original
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1956 ... our-time-5