| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
An article in today's Boston Globe about an all-night bakery uses the phrase "lobster shift." What is it? What's its origin?
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| 1104.1 | PASTIS::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Thu Jun 30 1994 08:58 | 5 | |
I know from South West England that lobster pots were set baited
during the evening, and then lifted before dawn so that the
lobsters could be shipped to the market in time. I have never come
across the term, though. If I had been asked to guess a meaning I would
have said from 4 to 6 a.m..
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| 1104.2 | JRDV04::DIAMOND | $ SET MIDNIGHT | Thu Jun 30 1994 18:25 | 4 | |
If you lay a line of lobsters that all have giant right claws
threatening the little left claws of their neighbors, then you
can expect them to shift right. Vice-versa, and they shift left.
The origin is an introductory seminar on computer hardware.
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