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Re: Phrase
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Mon, 25 Jun 2001 03:17:57 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> The following is a totally serious post, my apologies for posting it in .fun...
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> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> <more than you probably expected could be said about 17th century naval
> history... unless you knew the inestimable LFB that is>
What? I could write a book on a rowboat! Not that
rowboat, that other one over there...
> What I think is *really neat* about our little hobby is how many DIFFERENT
> kinds of geeks it attracts. There are experts here on more topics than you
> could possibly shake a stick at. (1)
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> Is that cool or what?
Hey! Take it to .geek! We can't be having fun in .geek,
or geeks in .fun, or 911 turbos that do a quarter mile in
1.3 seconds in .loc.au!
Now that we've cleared THAT up, everything will be fine,
birds will sing, grass will grow, and BrickBay will be back
up.
> 1 - and no I don't know the derivation of that phrase either and I *wasn't
> asking*!!!
Too bad. :)
http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-sha2.htm
Basically, nobody knows, but it's at least 200 years old.
Unsolicitedly,
LFB
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| The following is a totally serious post, my apologies for posting it in .fun... In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes: <more than you probably expected could be said about 17th century naval history... unless you knew the (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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