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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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- Subject: Re: More songs about buildings and food
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 05:41:42 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, Graham Toal () says:
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- >:England is confounding..GT owns a sparcstation yet carries a skeleton key
- >:on his chain, and it is not an ornament. There's this constant butting up
- >
- >Bandwidth doesn't know what a skeleton key is. She's talking about a
- >key for a mortice lock, not a master key.
- >
- Well, they're both old.:-) I have a few of those old-style keys hanging
- around for no good reason, if you're talking about the kind of key I'm talking
- about...we might have a faux ami situation going. I also have a master key to
- a local building, which is a relatively new lock.:-) Either way, some
- Texan couldn't be expected to know which is what.....
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