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Odd mistake for me to make, CapK, as I do not care for Chanel perfumes ... or the price $$$$$.
Sniffing out errors again, are we? Hmmm?Oh, was it a mistake, then? Sorry, I just thought that you'd stumbled on to a really interesting fact about WWII that I'd never heard before ... 
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just stumbled into <eeeeeewww> this thread, and all I can contribute at this late date is a quote:
If a man, at hay time or harvest, holds his fork with his left hand lowest, they say, ‘Ah! he's no good! he's kack-handed!+’
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I don't remember ever seeing a right handed man who did not hold his left hand lower on a pitchfork. To pitch hay up into a wagon, a right handed man holding the end of the fork in his right hand can pitch the hay higher and with better control.
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<<Korinthenkacker>>
"The Siege of Corinth" is a Rossini opera and it definitely shits raisins.
(sounds better than currants)
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I will not eat a raisin ever again. I never did like currants.
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Just to drag this thread back from the scatological and in the general direction of its original purpose, "lick and a promise" is a term which appears to transcend all borders between predominantly English-speaking countries. I asked an Indian (not red, the real McCoy) friend of mine who lives in Bombay about the term in an email yesterday - after reading this thread - and he replied that he'd used it that day when trying to get a reluctant six-year-old to wash before going out somewhere. Interesting, isn't it? The etymological basis of the term isn't well understood anywhere, but the meaning of the term doesn't change, regardless of culture or location. And now, back to eating dates to produce, hummph, ah, raisins? And sorry for having introduced the serious note at an inappropriate moment ... 
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And now, back to eating dates to produce, hummph, ah, raisins? And sorry for having introduced the serious note at an
inappropriate moment ...
Eating dates? Are you referring to Hannibal Lechter's culinary habits?
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"eating dates to produce, hummph, ah, raising"
Dear Geoff:I am passing up a too obvious invitation to ribaldry.
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Eating dates? Are you referring to Hannibal Lechter's culinary habits?This weeks New Scientist in its Feedback column http://www.newscientist.com/feedback/ has a story concerning the commission set up by the UK health service to investigate the unfortunate practice of keeping organs of the deceased (particularly young children) without permission from the relatives. This "Retained Organs Commission" is based at the Department of Health's huge office block at the Elephant and Castle area of London which is named Hannibal House. The column also has a couple of other stories of interest to this forum including a reference to a reissue of the only film to be made in Esperanto, and that there are more Klingon speakers than Esperanto (but I guess the same number of native speakers ). And also a reference to RAS syndrome (Redundant Acronym Syndrome..). Rod PS "Elephant and Castle" is apparantly a corruption of "Infanta de Castille"
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PS "Elephant and Castle" is apparantly a corruption of "Infanta de Castille"
Interesting - I heard that the locksmiths had an elephant and a castle on their coat of arms, that they were prevalent in this area of London and that was how the name came about. Can't answer for the veracity or otherwise, however.
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