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Re: ai carrumba

#147214 09/05/05 12:07 PM

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Northern Ontario, Canada

I think in one of the AWAD mail issues someone noted that "La Brea" means "the tar", so that to say "The La Brea Tar Pits" was to say "The the tar tar pits".
Not with salsa sauce, perhaps, but pobviously with tartar sauce.....

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