>BTW, do you lot use the expression "pratt", meaning an "pathetic idiot"? Many people here with the surname Pratt (like the dr in ER) would have it chaged by deed poll.
By the same token, if a Texan says to you "Git!" he is asking you to move along, not assessing your character <s>
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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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