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#146619 08/22/05 09:46 PM
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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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#146620 08/23/05 12:12 PM
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Sparteye, do you have the rubber bats?


#146621 08/23/05 09:57 PM
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Always, Ms Creith.

:: hands Elizabeth a rubber bat ::

:: passes them out to everybody else, too ::



#146622 08/23/05 11:40 PM
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Sow hoon they forget.

Hilarious.


#146623 08/23/05 11:47 PM
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>Sparteye, do you have the rubber bats?

Rubber? May we use osmium bats instead?


#146624 08/24/05 01:51 PM
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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


#146626 08/24/05 06:27 PM
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Ask not for hoon the bell tolls...


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#146628 08/24/05 07:04 PM
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Ask not for hoon the bell tolls...

And some say it is only TEd.



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