>>>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.
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>>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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>I've seen enough westerns to know that :-)
And in meeting the parents of both Texan and English girls I was dating I was exposed to the alternative meanings ... <s>
Charles Hankey
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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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
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