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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!agate!thor!dgreen
  2. From: dgreen@thor (David Greenebaum)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  4. Subject: Re: Take a shave
  5. Date: 17 Nov 1992 20:21:04 GMT
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  12.  
  13. Paul Burnett writes:
  14. >
  15. >LLC>But will you take a powder?
  16. >
  17. >LLC>Anybody know where that phrase came from?
  18. >
  19. >From the "powder", or dust, left billowing in one's wake when
  20. >one speedily departs?  My 2. worth....
  21. >
  22. Or from beating a hasty retreat to the "powder room", where one goes
  23. to "powder one's nose"? (My 2d)
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  27.  | > | |\\ | \ |/  |   David Greenebaum/University of California/Berkeley, CA
  28.  |<  | | \ |   |   |   dgreen@athena.berkeley.edu, dgreen@garnet.berkeley.edu
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  30.  |/  | |   |   |   |   "I make mistakes, but I am on the side of good -- by
  31. ---------------------  accident and happenchance." -- the Golux
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