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

[Benjamin Barrett]

On Aug 9, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> 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".
>

A wee bit obscure, but a good laugh, thank you :)

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