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#110666 - 08/22/03 11:38 AM a wide-awake
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	From anohter Sherlock Holmes story: "An instant later our door opened, and a tall young man entered the room. He was well but quietly dressed in a dark-gray suit, and carried a brown wide-awake in his hand. I should have put him at about thirty, though he was really some years older." Who knows what a "wide-awake" is?
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#110667 - 08/22/03 11:48 AM Re: a wide-awake
dxb Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/06/02 Posts: 1692 Loc: UK	I believe it's a type of hat - but I know no more than that. It is also a name given to the sooty tern, but I think it unlikely that he was carrying a sooty tern!
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#110668 - 08/22/03 12:18 PM Re: a wide-awake
Zed Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/27/02 Posts: 2154 Loc: British Columbia, Canada	unlikely that he was carrying a sooty tern! the mental picture caught me off guard and made me choke on my morning tea!
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#110669 - 08/22/03 12:25 PM Re: a wide-awake
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7184 Loc: Vermont	took a tern for the worst, eh? _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#110670 - 08/22/03 12:29 PM Re: a wide-awake
Zed Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/27/02 Posts: 2154 Loc: British Columbia, Canada	and got tea all over my soot(y)
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#110671 - 08/22/03 12:51 PM Re: a wide-awake
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7184 Loc: Vermont	_________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#110672 - 08/22/03 02:27 PM Re: a wide-awake
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	Leave no stone unturned, no tern unstoned, no mandrill's stern untoned.
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#110673 - 08/25/03 08:19 PM Re: a wide-awake
Zed Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/27/02 Posts: 2154 Loc: British Columbia, Canada	Ha!
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