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>Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 15:21:17 -0400
> Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@datamann.com> extropians@extropy.org Re: Tolerance for Dissent on ExtropiansReply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>
>Loree Thomas wrote:
>>
>> --- James Rogers <jamesr@best.com> wrote:
>> > From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com>
>> > >
>> > > mailbombing you and your droogies inflicted on
>> > this list, and to
>> >
>> >
>> > What the hell are droogies? We've been told
>> > repeatedly that this list has
>> > an infestation of them, but the dictionary can't
>> > find that word.
>>
>> It means "pals" with the implication of "partners in
>> crime". It's from Authur C. Clark's "A Clockwork
>> Orange".
>
>Note that ACO slang, along with Heinlein's use of russian slang in "The
>Moon is a Harsh Mistress" was part of a general attempt to get SF
>recognised by the leftists who controlled (and generally still do) what
>was accepted as "lit'rature" in the 50's & 60's. The actual terms
>themselves have been traced further back to use as slang in english
>conversation to the Cambridge Commies of the 1930's and their Fellow
>Travellers in the rest of Britain and the US, according to Orwell,
>Chambers, and the Venona Files.
>
With the subtextual implicational slander that I am a communist or a fellow traveller, which is untrue; I use the word as Burgess used it, to indicate a group of like-minded people who get together to pack-attack those outside their circle of friends, or who disagree with their common views (and they hold most of them in common) in any particular.
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