Well, Peter Pedantic, I would have said "holiday" but, to Americans, that seems to mean public time off, such as Xmas and Thanksgiving. Vacs is used mainly by British university students to mean the periods between their terms (semesters).
>>Sorry if I don't answer any messages but I'm outa here for 1 week vac.
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>"Vac" as in "vacuum cleaning"?
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>Boy, your house must have piled up the dirt...
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.