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- From: LMEBGO@kiera.ericsson.se (Bengt G{llmo, L M Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: What's cooking?
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 04:24:09 -0600
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- dgreen@thor (David Greenebaum) writes:
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- > ... (Note
- >that for human beings, the past participle is not hung, but hanged:
- >"He was hanged at dawn.")
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- Maybe he was also well hung :-)
- (isn't that an expression for having a big penis?)
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- Bengt
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- The bad thing about good things is that they usually come to an end.
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