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#11868 12/06/00 01:47 PM
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shanks, I think a better term would be yartstick.

I had the feeling that 'Ian Dury and the Blockheads' and the band's classic Brit song "Hit me with your rhythm stick" had not crossed the Atlantic. Jo, as you can see, got the reference immediately. Sorry for any confusion I may have caused. [sad][apologetic][sackcloth and ashes emoticon]


#11869 12/06/00 03:58 PM
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Jo, as you can see, got the reference immediately.

Well, no, actually, I couldn't see that. Gee, just what I
needed today--another humiliation/letdown.

But I still like yartstick.


#11870 12/06/00 04:17 PM
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yartstick >> yardstick >> meterstick? meterrod?? (now *that would be confusing!)


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>>metreschtick?


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