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#80015 09/10/02 01:02 PM
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Dear Jackie: back in the days when tobacco chewing was common, those who
chewed it had to spit very often. So spitting out of cars was common. The
trick was not to spit into the wind. There was a silent movie comedian whose
trademark was spitting into spitoon making it do a wobbly spin. I can't remember
his name. Can any of you? "What's the use of chewing tobacco if you can't spit out the juice?"


#80016 09/10/02 01:08 PM
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Jackie. They's the Mason-Dixon line and then they's the Mason-Dixon line.

Read all about it:
http://freespace.virgin.net/john.cletheroe/usa_can/usa/mas_dix.htm

Y'all'll note that by one a nem definitions y'all're *North of the Mason-Dixon line.

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Well, the real one certainly did not run very far west at all. Thanks, Faldage. I like where the one guy talks about something we've mentioned here (I think), and adds a new twist:
By the way, the most likely source of "Dixie" comes from the use of the French money "dix" which was used along the southern Mississippi. I always wondered, if a southerner was from Dixie (Dixon) would not a northerner be from Masey (Mason)?
Sincerely,
Todd M. Babcock,
A Professional Land Surveyor from way, away, away up North in Masey




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BREAKFAST:
A pot of coffee and a straw.


...I definitely can relate.

CANADIAN:
A Canadian is anyone who has figured out how to make love in a canoe.
--Pierre Berton


...True?


CAT:
Felis Catus, is your toxonomic nomenclature,
An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous in nature.
--Commander Data, USS Enterprise NCC1701-D
A perambulatory safety deposit box for hairballs.
--Michael Nellis, 11 Sep 1993
They are Satan's spawn sent for my torment. The less said about them the better.
--Jack Ruttan, 24 Feb 1997 [about the antics of his two cats]
A cat by any other name is still a sneaky little furball.
People who dislike cats were rats in a former life!
A small, furry beast resembling a meatloaf.


CATHOLIC:
A cat with a drinking problem



CONFIDENCE:
The feeling you had before you knew better.



DEPRESSION:
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.



ELECTORAL COLLEGE:
The Electoral College is a weird and complicated plan drawn up by our founding fathers just before the bartender cut them off. --Mark Russell
in the Wall Street Journal
[On the occasion of the 2000 presidential election fiasco. --MN]

...and now I'll cut myself off. These were great, W'on! Thanks to Faldage, too!



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Precarious - dental condition of anyone too fond of sugar.


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UCLA - what you see when the smog lifts

Dr Livingston I Presume - "And what is your full name, Dr Presume?"

credit should go to Steve Allen, "The Question Man" (among other things), ca. 1955


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