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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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- Subject: Re: Gleanings (76)
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 05:07:58 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK (G) says:
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- > 3) Thunderbird == is a really *cheap* wine, was about 50 cents a
- > bottle when I was a youngster, when my friends and I would
- >
- >Shall I mourn your decline with some Thunderbird wine and a white handkerchief?
- >
- I wouldn't do that if I were you, Grahammie; one swig of that stuff would
- kill off any taste buds you may have left after all those years of London
- food.[damned sassenachs can't cook worth a darn...even my cornish great-granny
- agreed with *that*] If it didn't kill your sense of taste, you'd wish
- it had.....
-
- Forget the white hankie too; it's too... too... innocent an affectation for
- someone like a Wordsler to bring off. Use a red bandana and some Lone Star
- beer instead.
-
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