Subject: Re: the latest in the Boeing follies
Thanks! The only one I knew was 'proles', having just re-read 1984.

My source for "his nibs" is from literature of a less lofty sort. I saw a movie about a 10ish year old boy, who is transported, from 1960, to Blackbeard's pirate ship. I also had a comic book treatment of the story, which I read a number of times. In one frame the boy, who is working as a cabin boy, is handed a cask of rum, by a crewman, who says "his nibs is calling for his milk". That phrase has stuck with me ever since.

Here's the trailer for the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Steve