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Okay-- just to clarify a biro--is it about the same diameter as the hole in a life saver?
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If they'd introduced musky Life Savers in the US, this probably wouldn't have had to happen: Kraft to Close Mich. Candy Plant
HOLLAND, Mich. (AP) - Kraft Foods Inc. says it will close its 35-year-old Life Savers plant here by fall 2003 in a move that will cost more than 600 jobs.... http:// http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020108/bs/life_savers_plant_1.html
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Oh, Stales..........
[pink]If you are coming to Wordapalooza, could you bring us some nice fresh musksticks, pretty please?[/pink]
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Disbelievers please email me and I'll send a pic - just downloaded one. Pack of ~25 A$1.39 at the local supermarket! Or try http://store4.yimg.com/I/evryaustralian_1666_66498120(that's an underline before and after the "1666" ) (Google is indeed a wondrous thing) And apparently there is also a separate commmodity called a musk stick, which is incense of the appropriate aroma. Not to be taken internally.
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I don't think I'm coming to Wordapolooza after all. It might compromise my personal safety ... 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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I reckon they are eaten more often than chewing gum by Aussie kids.
But, what do they taste like??? Are they sweet? Are they sour? And kids eat these things? The picture I saw looks like licorice...pink, aussie, licorice. Am I seeing it right?
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They appeared to be sugar-coated to me. If so, and they're sour then they might be similar to Sour Patch Straws here in the US. Those are delicious.
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you people have candy that tastes like sex??? Could I get a free sample?Ohhhh, Jackie! You've gone and done it now!  Help Wanted: Gutter Cop to patrol the AWADboards ever-so-quietly and keep risqué flamboyance from getting (ahem!) too out of hand!  'Cause as Adlai E. Stevenson once said: Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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Not to be a killjoy by posing a serious question, but today's "Daily Almanac" in our local paper states that on this date in 1788, the first English settlers arrived in Australia's Botany Bay to establish a penal colony. Is that the correct date?...I always thought it was earlier than that, around the seventeen-aughts.
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Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction. Reminds me of an old comic, showing a gal writing a letter and saying to her roomate, "I'm writing to mom. What's the past tense of 'virgin'?" [blush?]
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