From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 16 07:37:18 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id HAA28638 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 07:37:18 -0800 Received: from veda.is (root@veda.is [193.4.230.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA28624 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 07:37:07 -0800 Received: (from adam@localhost) by veda.is (8.6.8/8.6.6) id PAA16724; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 15:34:36 GMT Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 15:34:36 GMT From: Adam David Message-Id: <199502161534.PAA16724@veda.is> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD with Bustec BT-542B SCSI interface X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Julian Stacey wrote: > `Clapper' is the active part of a bell, (as in church tower bell etc), > perhaps a fast rotating bell is meant by analogy as `going like clappers', The full phrase (in England) is "going like the clappers of Hell". This maybe ties in with the exclamation "Hell's bells!". However, "clapper" is also the name for the wooden part of bellows, which must be operated very fast in order to fan the flames of Hell and maintain the hot temperature there. "Hell's bellows!" :-) -- Adam David