silly and off-topic

[Lynne Murphy]

--On Thursday, June 13, 2002 10:10 am -0400 John Blower <john at FENIKS.COM>
wrote:

> At 02:32 PM 6/13/02 +0100, you wrote:
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>> I didn't know traditional English schoolboys played baseball....
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> It's called "rounders".
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Well, not exactly the same thing
(see  http://rounders.punters.co.uk/rules.html)
and no one ever talks about wearing their rounders caps backwards!

Lynne

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