Apparently a poor attempt at :-) [Was: Follow-up on sluff ...]

[Joel S. Berson]

At 8/9/2011 03:16 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
> > Ben, were you raised in Ireland?  :-)
>
>Since I have no idea why you would ask that, I must not have been
>(aside from that fact that I know that I wasn't).

Ben had written:
 >> Not being familiar with the meaning of "slough off its skin" for
 >> snakes, I don't have that connection.

"St. Patrick banishes all snakes from Ireland".

Joel

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