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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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- Subject: Re: WORDS-L TP: John's History Question
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 05:15:26 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS () says:
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- >Oh, great. Looks like I'm the first one to go into the toilet big time!
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- <<*flush*>>
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- >"Gopher wood"? What the hell's THAT??? 8-) I supposed when the boat
- >foundered on the reef the accident report read "Gopher broke?"
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- I'll gopher that - it's the best definition of the stuff I've seen yet.:-)
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- >I'll take a guess and say Moses, Carolyn.
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- Try Noah - as in a rather large wooden floating menagerie. We usually call it
- an ark.:-) You were in the right ballpark, but the only time Moses is ever
- recorded as being in a boat is when his mother sets him adrift....
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