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#107401 07/16/03 10:46 AM
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I hereby confirm that I meant [b ]A
gold star to eta!
sorry for the confuschias


#107402 07/21/03 01:45 AM
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I wonder where Tross got to?


#107403 07/21/03 03:36 AM
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come what may, I'll post the results late tomorrow..


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come what may, I'll post the results late tomorrow.

Such hubris! What if you're late by tomorrow?


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I'm sure the hogmaster has appointed a literary executor to take care of these things, just in case.

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#107406 07/21/03 11:17 AM
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What if you're late by tomorrow?

quite so, max: the denizons of the Scottish Islands, when making such a promise, will always add, "... if the Lord spares me," as a rider. To do otherwise is to tempt fate far to much!
I mean -- his literary executor might take the job too literally!


#107407 07/21/03 01:58 PM
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And in the southern US we have the similar "...Good Lord willin' and the creek don't rise."


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Good Lord willin'

Inshallah, in Arabic.




#107409 07/21/03 04:49 PM
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guess I wasn't too bright in making my last post. (or was I?)
-joe (antideluvian) friday


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Good Lord willin' and the creek don't rise."

It's not my language, but ... shouldn't that be crick?


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