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- From: M.E.Bennun@CEN.EX.AC.UK
- Subject: Re: blodge
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- Dec30, 92 12:56 am
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- GLDBRGJO@EARN.NYUACF wrote........
- >
- >
- > Now that we have all acknowledged receiving a blodge of mysterious e-mail
- > I ask, is a blodge the younger cousin of a wodge, and does it only apply
- > to mysterious e-mail?
- > Yechiel Goldberg
- >
-
- Dunno what a blodge is. I got a wodge of such messages, though.
-
- The fault for the emergence of this pseudo-neologism is probably mine,
- from saying that Lower Caisse island of San Serriffe (where the Great
- Woj of Tipe is found) has a peninsula which tapers and curves south
- and EAST. In fact, it tapers and curves south and WEST. The north
- island is definitely roughly circular in outline.
-
- How can you people ever forgive me....
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