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You mean you're just freezing us out from time to time? Typical! 
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just chillin' out, not meaning to give anyone the cold shoulder.
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Oh, you-all, my sides hurt--you-all're killin' me!  Where to start? Oh, I know: It was bigamy to bring that up! Trust you for that, Ted!  ...it seems strange to me that both the brother of your spouse and the spouse of your brother are given the same title. This seems strange to me, too, unless it is where homosexual marriages are legal. ...solicitors-general, attorneys-general, and even Governors-general...passersby...handsful Good ones, brethren. figging leaves...cryogenics...just chillin' out, not meaning to give anyone the cold shoulder You mean you're just freezing us out from time to time? Oh, ow ow ow!
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attorneys general
I have been told (but disagree with) the notion that trade union follows the same rule, so the plural would be trades union. To me, the noun is union and the modifier is trade so the plural is trade unions. If the union incoporates several trades then it is a trades union.
In fact my POD agrees with me:
Trades Union Congress n. official representative body of British trade unions. I
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Oooops...you're right Bingley. It was the size of Geoff's fig leaf we discussed. We would never discuss your fig leaf size, no sireee bob. The size of your fig leaf is the stuff of history. Now whether it is the history of comedy or that of heroic deeds is an other matter.
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While fully appreciating that bel's hysterical -- oops, "historical" -- post above was but a scholarly scientific interest in fig-leaf sizing: botany and all,
had I not undertood that this board is devoted to matters linguistic, not scientific?
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But of course Keiva dear. The linguistics of botany is quite interesting dontcha know. *Somebody’s* feeling a little threatened by fig-leaf comparisons. Men are sooo sensitive about their botany.
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Bel says, Men are sooo sensitive about their botanyNo, bel, your interest in fig leaves is a of matter botany, as I'd said. Now had you been talking about men, I'd have said your scientific interest was zoology -- but would have been compelled to  for you.
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Somebody’s* feeling a little threatened by fig-leaf comparisons. Men are sooo sensitive about their botany.bel, that was great! Oooops...you're right Bingley... The size of your fig leaf is the stuff of history. Well now, I feel sure that our Mr. B. surely has a wide variety...
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bel says, "Men are sooo sensitive about their botany."
bel, according to my dictionary the word "about" can mean either:
a) in the immediate vicinity of;
b) with regard to.
In which sense were you using that word?
May I adjudge from context that you were using the first sense (as your main reference concerned biology rather than psychology)?
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