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tsuwm #182581 02/13/09 03:04 AM
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Originally Posted By: Faldage
Originally Posted By: The Pook
that's trashman to you Americans


Usually we call them garbage men. Or either sanitary engineers, one. I don't think I've ever heard trashman.


Here in my city it is 'trashmen' or 'trash-haulers', garbagemen being pejorative.


----please, draw me a sheep----
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Stravinsky once said about his music: ' It is a rare form of kleptomania.'
Not that rare.

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