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  1. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!gtoal
  3. From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
  4. Subject: Re: K Street
  5. Message-ID: <C018s8.7zn@demon.co.uk>
  6. Sender: news@demon.co.uk
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: pizzabox.demon.co.uk
  8. Organization: Cuddlehogs Anonymous
  9. References: <Bzqz8z.2Jt@techbook.com> <BzyF98.GFt@demon.co.uk> <C00Fx2.5LE@techbook.com>
  10. Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:02:31 GMT
  11. Lines: 13
  12.  
  13. In article <C00Fx2.5LE@techbook.com> dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque) writes:
  14. :gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
  15. :>
  16. :>Queer Street?
  17. :
  18. :I was trying for actual streets.  From what I can tell from
  19. :dictionaries, there was no actual street named Queer that gave rise to
  20. :this expression.
  21.  
  22. True - that was indeed the whole point of it.  It was the original
  23. fake address (but done facetiously or humourously).
  24.  
  25. G
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