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  1. Newsgroups: alt.peeves
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!news.Brown.EDU!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!sgiblab!sgigate!odin!whizkid.wpd.sgi.com!zursch
  3. From: zursch@whizkid.wpd.sgi.com (Jeffrey B. Zurschmeide)
  4. Subject: Re: Peeve du jour - Menhaden
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan25.182306.19994@odin.corp.sgi.com>
  6. Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: whizkid.wpd.sgi.com
  8. Reply-To: zursch@whizkid.wpd.sgi.com (Jeffrey B. Zurschmeide)
  9. Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
  10. References: <y5Kls*B01@prolix.apana.org.au> <C19qnx.8wr@vcd.hp.com> <1993Jan23.043709.17206@netcom.com>
  11. Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:23:06 GMT
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  15. Well, In SannaCrooz, where I hail from, "Menhaden" is typically not used
  16. to refer to fish except in the most indirect and vulgar way, and it is typically
  17. used as part of a two-word phrase:
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  19. Menhaden Dykes
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  21. JZ
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  23. ObReference: See Booter
  24.  
  25. ObPeeve: not staying late enough at the peevesters party.
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