Who says ''Merkins''?

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 10/20/06 1:03:01 AM, truespel at HOTMAIL.COM writes:


> I've never consciously heard "merkins" for "Americans" until a post I got
> from an Australian who spelled it out so I suppose they say it that way in
> the outback.  I do know folks from Philly call the state of Maryland
> "Merlin".
> 

It was a commonplace joke during the earlier years of the Viet Nam War that 
the president of the United States addressed the country as "My fellow 
Merkins." He was from Texas. Our dicitonaries told us that MERKIN means 'artifical 
pubic hair'.

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