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But no one has talked about the derivation of this word from swine.
Sow hoon they forget.
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Sparteye, do you have the rubber bats?
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Always, Ms Creith.
:: hands Elizabeth a rubber bat ::
:: passes them out to everybody else, too ::
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Sow hoon they forget.
Hilarious.
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>Sparteye, do you have the rubber bats?
Rubber? May we use osmium bats instead?
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Can't think of the fellow's name - author of "The Postman" and the Sundiver SF series.
In the follow-on to the Sundiver series there is a race of beings called hoons. Wonder if he made it up or was being clever.
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>>Can't think of the fellow's name - author of "The Postman" and the Sundiver SF series.<<
David Brin
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Ask not for hoon the bell tolls...
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Ask not for hoon the bell tolls...
And some say it is only TEd.
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