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1145.1 | | TP011::KENAH | Do we have any peanut butter? | Thu Jun 01 1995 09:23 | 4 |
| Actually, the GRAMMAR conference is rather quiet -- also, you'll find
that many of the same people inhabit both conferences.
andrew
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1145.2 | Nit Pick | WHOS01::BOWERS | Dave Bowers @WHO | Mon Jun 12 1995 12:50 | 1 |
| By the way, the correct idiom is, I believe, "Barking UP the wrong tree."
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1145.3 | Good Dog | wook.mso.dec.com::mold.ogo.dec.com::lee | Wook like book with a W | Sun Sep 17 1995 23:48 | 7 |
| Which, of course, refers to the canine tendency to forget the tree up which
it recently chased any number of things particularly of the rodent variety.
Though it could be that the poor dog didn't notice that the squirrel had
hopped to an adjacent tree.
Wook
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1145.4 | The English, as she is spoke | DRDAN::KALIKOW | DIGITAL=DEC: ReClaim TheName&Glory! | Mon Sep 18 1995 03:38 | 2 |
| But see also the British hughgrantism "Knocking up the wrong girl."
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1145.5 | have a hart, deer! | GIDDAY::BURT | DPD (tm) | Sun Oct 08 1995 20:55 | 10 |
| I read something I thought was just *wonderful* this morning. Someone was
descirbing something as "not for the feint-hearted*.
I wonder if that includes lawyers and sales-people?
I wonder if a cannibal with a feint heart could win a maiden fare?
Chele
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1145.6 | | DRDAN::KALIKOW | DIGITAL=DEC: ReClaim TheName&Glory! | Sun Oct 08 1995 21:53 | 5 |
| Didjoo hear the one about the second-story man who wanted to fence his
stolen goods but didn't want to visit the fencer's place of business in
the seedy part of town, because venturing there was not for the
feint-hearted?
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1145.7 | equal rites | GIDDAY::BURT | DPD (tm) | Sun Oct 08 1995 22:19 | 9 |
| No, but tell me :^)
I did hear the one about couple who wanted to live next door to a
successful receiver of stolen goods, because they'd heard that good fences
made good neighbours.
(apologies to T.Pratchett)
Chele
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1145.8 | The farther the feinter? | JOKUR::MACDONALD | | Tue Dec 05 1995 09:30 | 3 |
| So, did you hear about the distant spy satellite that sent out
feint signals?
Bruce
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1145.9 | | JRDV04::DIAMOND | segmentation fault (california dumped) | Tue Dec 05 1995 17:07 | 2 |
| I was so stunned at being attacked by my own sword,
I nearly feinted.
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1145.10 | lament of the greenkeeper | GIDDAY::BURT | DPD (tm) | Tue Dec 05 1995 18:32 | 2 |
| I was stunned at being attacked by my own sward.
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1145.11 | lament of the sculptor | wook.mso.dec.com::LEE | | Fri Dec 08 1995 11:18 | 1 |
| I was stoned by being attacked by my own shard.
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