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RE: Am I a mutt?
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Hello again, Duncan. Nice to chat again - you will note that the beer thread is still alive and wel......
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January 29, 2003 02:05
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Indeed this is so. But the device that the American was demonstrating blew the air into the carpet a......
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January 29, 2003 02:03
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In view of the dubious benefits that seem to accrue from consumption of the alternatives cited here,......
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January 28, 2003 11:44
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In fact, my aunt had a Goblin vacuum cleaner and she called it the Gimpy (or was it Jimpy) which was......
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January 28, 2003 11:23
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Interestingly, although "hoover" has become a generic term (much like "biro" and "thermos") - the va......
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January 27, 2003 22:59
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I might indeed partake, but of what? that's the question. Certainly it would not be of anything on......
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January 27, 2003 11:30
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This is an interesting example of a verb ("to zip") which is now accepted without question. However,......
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January 26, 2003 22:33
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I have a feeling that's the concoction I had to take when I visited Sri Lanka! I began to think that......
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January 26, 2003 09:29
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If alcohol is not a drug, then I have never taken drugs and probably never will. I do not like smoki......
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January 26, 2003 01:19
RE: Terms from US football
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"Moving the goal posts" is the only term I have yet understood. Incidentally, the expression "to pu......
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January 25, 2003 09:10
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I rest my case in my defence of Oxford! Richard English...
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January 23, 2003 23:02
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I have certainly never seen a source that suggests this! The difference between the "to draw a concl......
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January 23, 2003 11:54
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I know very little about sport but was forced to play Rugby Football at school. Fumbling was a term ......
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January 22, 2003 01:56
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Of course, when one visits an area and begins to associate with the locals (one of the great virtues......
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January 22, 2003 01:50
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No. We play football - you call it soccer to distinguish from America Football (which is a bit like ......
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January 21, 2003 10:07
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How can you speak of Fuller's 1845 - a beer of amazing strength and depth of flavour in the same pos......
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January 21, 2003 07:18
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The Courage Mega-Keggery in Reading has never made an ounce of beer in its entire existence. Courag......
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January 20, 2003 07:03
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You might be interested to learn that the term is meaningless in the UK (as, I suspect, will be most......
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January 20, 2003 01:49
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It is, in fact a US versus UK difference at this level. In the UK, even now, the people who are mos......
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January 19, 2003 09:20
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Is there and Anglo-American difference again here? "Living off immoral earnings" means, in the UK, ......
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January 19, 2003 03:12
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