http://www.word-detective.com/2011/12/rigs/ Semper Ubi Sub Ubi Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:32:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.word-detective.com/2011/12/rigs/comment-page-1/#comment-33470 Stephen Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:04:37 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=6024#comment-33470 I can confirm that Maddy Prior still is in Steeleye Span, because I saw them at Reading town hall a few days before this article was posted! I don't think they played Rigs of the Time, but they still sound pretty good. (I also saw someone doing the shell game on the street in Geneva last year, so that's alive and well too.) I can confirm that Maddy Prior still is in Steeleye Span, because I saw them at Reading town hall a few days before this article was posted! I don’t think they played Rigs of the Time, but they still sound pretty good. (I also saw someone doing the shell game on the street in Geneva last year, so that’s alive and well too.)

]]> http://www.word-detective.com/2011/12/rigs/comment-page-1/#comment-28548 BCB Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:41:18 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=6024#comment-28548 Nice link of 'rigs' to machinery, especially since one of our other excellent words for "shady schemes" is 'machinations'. Nice link of ‘rigs’ to machinery, especially since one of our other excellent words for “shady schemes” is ‘machinations’.

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