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- From: bjones@denitqm.uswest.com (Brent Jones)
- Subject: Re: Men & maids
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- References: <1992Dec16.174031.18814@pixel.kodak.com> <1992Dec16.190121.4710@Princeton.EDU> <20199.2b383628@ul.ie> <Bzqtvy.67I@demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:10:52 GMT
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- In article <Bzqtvy.67I@demon.co.uk>, gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham
- Toal) wrote:
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- >
- > Well bowl me over - I had a batman once who was a woman.
- >
- > G
- > (I bet that's stumped you)
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- If I remember my Sax Rohmer correctly, a "batman" is some sort of personal
- servent, usually with the connotation of an indiginous native working
- for a colonial administrator. Close?
-
- --
- Brent Jones, Lead Tech. Editor, U S WEST IT, bjones@denitqm.uswest.com
- "of beautiful weeds that cannot hide from the farmer and helplessly have
- to watch the shadow of his simian stoop leave mangled flowers in its wake,
- as the monstrous darkness approaches."--V. Nabokov _Signs and Symbols_
-