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Translation: I'm not an elk, I'm a gnu.
A direct reference to Betsy's "I hope tsuwm or one of his ilk will chime in. "

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yup.


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indeed! Fong, just consider it a swansong.

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Mav is definitely one of the good ones.


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I got the ilk/elk/gnu part, but didn't know about the Flanders and Swan song. Thanks, mav--that's hilarious!

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indeed! Fong, just consider it a swansong.




Fooled by the extraneous R again. Somehow I always expect it to be attually pernounced.

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