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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 11:45:00 GMT
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- From: G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
- Subject: Re: Gleanings (76)
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- Are the following sentences exactly the same in meaning?
- If not, how different are they from each other?
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- I wouldn't distinguish any ofthem.
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- 1) TBBOM (Graham)
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- The Big Book Of Mischief. An underground publication on home-made
- explosives that I once picked up by accident thinking it was on making
- firecrackers, because Ed Vielmetti advertised it in his comp.archives
- postings as coming from rec.pyrotechnics. I am no doubt in several
- organisations files by now, for having fetched it by ftp...
-
- 2) Jug o' warm spit (Graham)
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- The value of the vice-presidency
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- 6) Yahoo Serious's aunt/Tandy's bag (Carolyn)
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- Yahoo Serious is a brilliant young actor who has often been compared
- to Einstein.
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- 7) To symlink (Sue V.)
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- What the ln -s command does on Unix. (Say, did *anyone* not realise
- who 'Sue Vanderlul' was?)
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- 15) Three-inch John Henry (?)
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- Add this to your collection of euphemisms for sexual organs. Or in this
- case, sexual piccolos. It was an example of obviously camp humour probably
- made by a closet homosexual... we still haven't found out which one, but
- there are plenty on this list to chose from...
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- 17) "The Lord of the Dance" (Graham)
-
- A hymn sung to the tune of ...
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- 18) Parker Brothers/Clue (Joan)
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- Same board game as Cluedo. For people who need a clue.
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- 21) Dodge Geezer (Graham)
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- Was a typo for 'dodgy geezer', ie dubious person. (Dubious in a 'close to
- being criminal' sense.
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- G
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