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

[Jonathan Lighter]

"St. Patrick was a gentleman, he was a saint so frisky:
He drove the snakes from Ireland, and put them in the whisky."

--Old Song

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:

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> On Aug 9, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> > 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).
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> > Ben had written:
> >>> Not being familiar with the meaning of "slough off its skin" for
> >>> snakes, I don't have that connection.
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> > "St. Patrick banishes all snakes from Ireland".
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> A wee bit obscure, but a good laugh, thank you :)
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