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Yes I know, master tsuwm. I think that is what I said. smile


mebbe so; but it's not all that you said.


My, my, do we here on AWAD talk cryptically or can we plainly say what we meant to mean? smile

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Originally Posted By: jenny jenny
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Originally Posted By: jenny jenny
Yes I know, master tsuwm. I think that is what I said. smile


mebbe so; but it's not all that you said.


My, my, do we here on AWAD talk cryptically or can we plainly say what we meant to mean? smile


No.

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Apparently.

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Originally Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu
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Wrongo Buffalo.
Some people are curt and others are not. frown

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Just to add to this compendium of strange facts:
Google reports that Ray-Bon sun-glasses newly invented back in 1923 were sometimes called sun cheaters with cheaters being a colloquialism for glasses.

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If I am not mistaken, people in England wear what they call windcheaters, which we call windbreakers.

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