bobcats forever

[Beverly Flanigan]

"Just to throw a bobcat in the swimming pool"--where'd that come
from?  Since Ohio University's mascot is the bobcat, I'll use that one!

At 12:09 AM 6/13/2007, you wrote:
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>Poster:       James Harbeck <jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA>
>Subject:      Re: How prevalent is the silent "t"
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> >Is it possible that they are being maliciously subscribed by other parties?
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>Not very flattering to us to think it would be malicious to the
>subscribees... But if malicious to us, well, I'm sure there could be
>someone(s) lurking on the list who collect email addresses of
>particularly crusty and dull sorts and subscribe them just to throw a
>bobcat in the swimming pool. I was wondering about that earlier today.
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>James Harbeck.
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