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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 12:25:50 WET
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- From: Fizzy the Fribble
- <fribble%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
- Subject: Re: More songs about buildings and food
- Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu
- In-Reply-To: <9301020546.ab02506@kate.ibmpcug.co.uk>; from "Ruth M. Hanschka"
- at Jan 2, 93 5:41 am
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- > In a previous article, Graham Toal () says:
- > >: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.
-
- In England, Mortice locks are still very much the prevalent type of lock.
- (I only have one of the 'newer' sort of keys - most of mine are keys for
- mortice locks).
-
- Fiz.
-