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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 03:05:25 -0800
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- From: Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
- Subject: Re: An observation
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- > From: "Ruth M. Hanschka" <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>
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- > >Would that, by any chance, be a Viennese Schmatz?
- >
- > No, but it might be a Vienna Schmaltz, von Strauss. [and roll your Rs when
- > you say that, kid!:-)]
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- SO what's in an el, besides a few hundred commuters??
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- > I can believe it. French origin, I'll bet. Bi plus the verb for to cook,
- > "cuire" in its past tense.[or one of them]
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- So why would having had the biscuit mean that one is probably
- half baked?
-
- [Sorry ;=}]
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- Pm
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