OT: Irish blunders

[Joel S. Berson]

At 11/18/2009 12:01 PM, Seán Fitzpatrick wrote:
>Such a common occurrence that one takes no more notice of it when he does it
>than if he’d stubbed his toe.  Less, even.

Like the guillotine -- depends on how recently it's been honed.

Joel


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>Seán Fitzpatrick
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>Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?
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>I blame Global Warming.
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>http://www.logomachon.blogspot.com/
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joel S. Berson [mailto:Berson at ATT.NET]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 12:54 PM
>Subject: Re: OT: Irish blunders
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>For Irish blunders, one can find Hawthorne reporting in an American
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>magazine that Jonah Barrington tells a tale of an Irishman cutting
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>off his own head with a scythe.
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>Joel
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