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What are Wintogreen Lifesavers? And why would people be eating something that is so damaging to other people's eyesight that they need safety goggles?
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For the Parsis (same word as farsi/Persian, they were Zoroastrians who migrated from Persia to India after the Muslim invasions), earth and fire are sacred elements not to be polluted with decaying dead flesh, so they leave their dead on Towers of Silence for birds of prey.
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EsquimauxThere's a place on Vancouver Island called Esquimalt but it's pronounced "ess-kweye-malt", I think. Anyway, Eskimos are called Inuit now ("the people"), because that's what they call themselves. Seems fair to me! 
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How does Jo pronounce forks?
An put it in symbols a puir US'n kin unnerstan.
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well, if you'd spelt it right...
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 11:06:48 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: today's wwftd is... excarnate
to deprive or strip of flesh [obs]
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Dear tsuwm: Let's be fair. My spelling is a hell of a lot better than average, but my vision is well below. This goddam font makes an "r" before an "n" look so closely like an "m" that I mistook it not once but about twenty times.
Please don't excarnate me for such a small, and corrected error.
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>Let's be fair.
fair?? after you chided unsuspecting folk for giving up too easily on your misspell, why would I be fair?
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But tsuwm, if he hadn't so typed, you wouldn't have had so much fun chiding him! (I shall of course, following dr. bill's practice, deliberately insert for your amusement strategic typos into my own posts.)
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