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... checking a/c... [rant]Is this a "permanent" replacement for the *real useage - 'air conditioning'? Bleechhh!  [/rant] 
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tsuwn-- i have a vision of the maurading blancmange of Monty python-- (the one that invaded the tennis courts and ate the champion ship players) escaping to corporate american (starting in the most sinister of states MN!) and overrunning the world!
Any one have a spoon?
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ot, thank you for obviousiZing my message. -ron o. 
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From Monty Python's Flying Circus All The Words (V. 1):
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...So these blancmanges, blancmange-shaped creatures come from the planet Skyron in the Galaxy of Andromeda. They order 48,000,000 kilts from a Scottish menswear shop...turn the population of England into Scotsmen (well known as the worst tennis-playing nation on Earth) thus leaving England empty during Wimbledon fortnight...what's more the papers are full of reports of blancmanges appearing on tennis courts up and down the country -- practising. This can only mean one thing!
They mean to win Wimbledon.
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Hilarious sketch and absolutely perfect analogy for the behavior of American bank/cs these days. Thanks, tsuwm, for much-needed chuckles.
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Then there was the '60's Rock group The Left Banke ("Walk Away Renee," "Pretty Ballerina")...was this their take on a pseudo-French spelling?
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the *real useage - 'air conditioning'I think we may find double entry book-keepers working a few years before you poor sad dabs found you couldn't live on earth without refrigerating your bones, to the vast cost of the ozone layer around the entire planet  Anyway, you must be reading the wrong column of adVERTisments: it's a known fact this aptuallyİ stands for Alternating Current
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No-- this is not desending into a food thread-- it is one of thos eerie coincidences-- today's NY Times has an ariticle on Blane mange!-- and recipe too. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/30/living/30BLAN.htmlwords from our threads suddenly appear in the NYtimes crosswords, and, now timely recipes-- who's the NY times spy? N.B. the NY Times site does require you to register (its free, but they want to know who you are)-- and you must accept cookies.. but there privacy policy is a pretty good one-- and registering does not end up with your name on spam lists.
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...stands for Alternating CurrentAt least this and *my version are tollerable on account of they're being two distinkt words... ...poor sad dabs...I'm a member of the cool pool school  so you can't lay that heavy on me... you drive a fossil guzzlin mobile? Walkin', bikin' or public trans for me (not necessarilly in that order)... simplify, dude!
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Walkin', bikin' or public trans for meKeep on truckin' I see that the average petrol consumption in US cars has actually DECLINED over the last 20 years, to around 24 mpg. Just proves the USA needs more musick
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> the average petrol consumption in US cars has actually DECLINED this is due almost entirely to the draffy and execrable SUV. btw, you can get a used suv real cheap these days, what with the current price of gas....
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