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- From: ewald@math.lsa.umich.edu (Brian Ewald)
- Subject: Bread and Butter
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 18:10:58 EDT
- Organization: University of Michigan, Mathematics Department, Ann Arbor
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- Does anyone know where the practice of saying "Bread and butter"
- when two people walking together are separated by a pole or third
- person originated?
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- Brian D. Ewald
- ewald@math.lsa.umich.edu
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