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| Thread ID: 62672 | 2005-10-15 06:37:00 | Origin of Rogues Gallery ? | Misty (368) | PC World Chat |
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| 396474 | 2005-10-15 06:37:00 | Have been searching for how this phrase originated. In Google entering "Rogues Gallery" gives in excess of 1.800,000 hits. Putting "origin" helps but not a great deal. Putting "origin of" + "rogues gallery" is not specific enough. To take out all things relating to "Batman" helps ......but does not lead to the answer. I need to learn more about being more specific again or more lateral thinking. How can I approach this please ? Misty :waughh: |
Misty (368) | ||
| 396475 | 2005-10-15 06:43:00 | en.wikipedia.org | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 396476 | 2005-10-15 07:09:00 | en.wikipedia.org Thanks Speedy Gonzales I am indebted. Mrs Misty will be pleased... and I have learnt something today !! It is a fairly recent term therefore. cheers Misty :thumbs: |
Misty (368) | ||
| 396477 | 2005-10-15 07:12:00 | No worries Misty :) Its worth checking out Wikipedia. Its a good source of information. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 396478 | 2005-10-15 08:09:00 | Misty, simply use the Google "define:" function. Its much quicker than posting the questions here, and gives amazing results putting: define: rogues gallery into Google gives the above, it will work for almost anything define:misty Worth a read.... |
godfather (25) | ||
| 396479 | 2005-10-15 08:46:00 | That wikipedia reference does not say the term originated with comics. In fact far from it, the phrase predates any of those comics. It most certainly originated in connection with police photographs, whether with New York police in 1858, or Scotland Yard in 1862 may be debateable, but Arthur Conan Doyle used the phrase in a Sherlock Holmes story: "Watson and Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone" "It is a small point, Count Sylvius, but perhaps you would kindly give me my prefix when you address me. You can understand that, with my routine of work, I should find myself on familiar terms with half the rogues' gallery, and you will agree that exceptions are invidious." www.amk.ca It is left as an exercise for the reader to find out the date when Doyle wrote this :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 396480 | 2005-10-15 09:06:00 | Yet again it could have been Allan Pinkerton who formed the US Pinkertons National Detective Agency in 1850 who first coined the phrase according to this: www.barnstablepatriot.com |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 396481 | 2005-10-15 11:40:00 | A.1. T.P. M.C. |
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