learn something new every day

[Laurence Horn]

I reproduce this message (sans link) from the daily spam collection:

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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006  8:15: 6  -0330
From: "Genevieve Swain" <dresden at 100000books.com>

What are you to do if you have bad erection? Especially
in the forthcoming Saint Valentines Day???
Don t worry, it is not the last of pea-time...
The most simple way is to visit our site, order the
medication and that is all you are to do!

Do not kill the clock!
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(You'll note that this was sent the day after Valentine's Day; never
to early to plan ahead for next year, it appears.)
Being wholly unfamiliar with the phrase, but assuming in the context
it was not a typo for "the last of pee-time", I googled it, and sure
enough "(like) the last of pea-time" has 157 g-hits, many with
glosses along the line of 'elderly, old, senile'.  Go know.

Larry

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