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#142840 - 05/07/05 08:23 PM Putz
inselpeter Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/14/01 Posts: 2379 Loc: New York City	To clean. Where is the connection -- unless it is "Putzfrau," which is a bit derrogatory??
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#142841 - 05/07/05 08:57 PM Re: Putz
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13667	AHD says it's from Yiddish pots, penis. Maybe from Polish?
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#142842 - 05/10/05 06:29 PM Re: Putz
Zed Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/27/02 Posts: 2154 Loc: British Columbia, Canada	And I thought "Happy Days" was such a nice, clean-cut show!
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#142843 - 05/13/05 08:02 AM Re: Putz
dxb Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/06/02 Posts: 1692 Loc: UK	Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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#142844 - 05/13/05 12:56 PM Re: Putz
AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York	What's a nice guy like you doing with a garter, dixbie?
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#142845 - 05/13/05 02:23 PM Re: Putz
maverick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/15/00 Posts: 4757	> with a garter He's a once aknight man.
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