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- From: paul.burnett@pcs.sj.ca.us (Paul Burnett)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Take a shave
- Message-ID: <787.18.uupcb@pcs.sj.ca.us>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 12:21:00 GMT
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- Organization: PCS-BBS - San Jose, CA - 408-270-4085
- Reply-To: paul.burnett@pcs.sj.ca.us (Paul Burnett)
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- TO: ai118@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rich Zidonis)
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- RZ>In the morning, I will go and shave (unless it's Saturday). My
- >father-in-law, on the other hand, will be heard saying, "I think
- >I will go and take a shave."
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- RZ>I will go and take a shower, or I will shower, but to take a shave?
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- If someone else (a barber) is providing shaving service, one might
- "take" a shave. My 2. worth.
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- BTW, you _do_ know who shaves the barber in the town where everybody who
- doesn't shave themselves gets shaved by the barber? <G>
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