rutmus

[Jonathan Lighter]

Ah, but which cookbook?  And it presumably spelled the word as in the game.

  JL

"Douglas G. Wilson" <douglas at NB.NET> wrote:
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> The real rhetorical question is, where'd the "Balderdash" people get it
> from?

Cookbook?

The spelling "rotmos" gets a lot more hits.

-- Doug Wilson


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