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#151564 12/06/05 11:09 AM
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I have decided to allow freshet to take early retirement. See edited version of initial post, above. I will try to come up with another word but if anyone else has one then by all means go ahead with it.

#151565 12/06/05 11:59 AM
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Quote:

Polishing the razorback



[propping up hand in the back row, waving wildly-e]

Oh! Teacher, teacher...pick meeeeeeee! I know what this is...
KIELBASA

#151566 12/06/05 01:44 PM
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Double thanks to AW! First, for proposing a game. And second, for withdrawing a word which would not likely work ... and doing so with such grace and style. Well done.

#151567 12/06/05 01:49 PM
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I didn't know the word, but I'd never admit it.
In these parts, where a drinking fountain is a bubbla, chourico is often used instead of kielbasa.

#151568 12/06/05 02:13 PM
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People actually call water fountains after sausages?!?!? (She said, relating chourico to chorizo.) WHY????

#151569 12/06/05 04:25 PM
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'Sorry for the sloppy wording.
I was speaking of two unrelated things.
A bubbla is a Rhode Island drinking fountain.
Chourico is a type of Portuguese sausage.

#151570 12/06/05 04:42 PM
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D'OH! Keilbasa...Polish...razorback. [smacking forehead e]

#151571 12/07/05 01:25 AM
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D'OH! Keilbasa...Polish...razorback. [smacking forehead e]




And please note that you did not change the pronunciation of "polish" just because you capitalized it.

#151572 12/07/05 01:43 AM
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sometimes, I just don't understand. but I'm learning that that's ok.

so no need to explain.


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#151573 12/07/05 11:41 AM
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I'd tell you what the car wax did to the furniture wax, but I don't do polish jokes.


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