silly and off-topic

[Lynne Murphy]

--On Thursday, June 13, 2002 9:24 am -0400 "Dennis R. Preston"
<preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU> wrote:

> Lynne,
>
> And the one served on peasant bread is a 'farmer's almanac'?

You got it.


But as long as we're being silly and off-topic here, I read the following
in _The Big Issue_ today about a pea-shooting contest in Cambridgeshire:

"It's traditional Bash Street Kids, English schoolboy, turn your baseball
cap backwards and fire kind of thing," said organiser Tom Wood.

I didn't know traditional English schoolboys played baseball....

Lynne





Dr M Lynne Murphy
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