LL-L "Names" 2004.12.08 (08) [E]

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From: Ruth & Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2004.12.07 (03) [E]

Hi, Gabriele:

Subject: LL-L "Names" 2004.12.07 (02) [E]

> > Yrs All round,
> > Mark (Apenboontje moesie, indeed!)
>
> I'm not sure that THIS can be considered politically correct... but then,
> I'm not sure that, in this case, I want to hear the politically correct
> term.

This word was a parting shot from Our Ron to me in response to an exchange
between myself & Elsie in local lingo. Hers was Boesmanlands I think, & in
my case Onderkaaps.

You might like to tease the meaning out of him now ---.

That guy knows altogether too much about us.

Yrs,
Mark

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Names

Mark (hierbo):

> You might like to tease the meaning out of him now ---.

"Like water off a duck's back, I tell you. Like water off a duck's back!"
[said in the loud voice of butcher Fred Elliott (played by Jonathan
Savident) on "Coronation Street"].

> That guy knows altogether too much about us.

Don't worry, Mark!  Any intimate intelligence gathered is used only to
further noble causes.

Cheerio!
Reinhard/Ron

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