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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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- Subject: Re: An observation
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 18:42:58 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA (Peter Montgomery) says:
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- >> Don't be, it's in the wrong dialect anyway. I didn't understand it....
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- >"You've had the biscuit!" is something one might say to
- >someone who has used up their last chance.
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- Ahhh - as in last rites, no doubt.
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- >Pierre l'triscuit
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- If you can eat those things, you're a sicker man than I am [a woman]
- Gunga Din.
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- ### Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead ###
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