Too right it does, Mick. It tells me they've got a garden gate, for a start, and suggests they've got a dog they don't want to escape through the open gate.
As for the infamous OX, I think they probably got a bad reputation from being fitted into inappropriate airguns in which, for various reasons, they scraped against the inside of the piston and/or made the rifle horribly oversprung.
Although not an OX, I had a square section (but with rounded corners) Helston spring in my HW77 for around 20 years with no issues.