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- From: paul.burnett@pcs.sj.ca.us (Paul Burnett)
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- Subject: Re: Take a shave
- Message-ID: <809.18.uupcb@pcs.sj.ca.us>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 06:08:00 GMT
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- TO: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
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- LLC>But will you take a powder?
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- LLC>Anybody know where that phrase came from?
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- From the "powder", or dust, left billowing in one's wake when
- one speedily departs? My 2. worth....
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- . OLX 3.0 07-2042 . ...from San Jose, CA
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