[Ads-l] sheng nu

[Joel Berson]

Yin is the feng shui, yan is the sheng nu?
Joel

      From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
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It reminds me of when I was going to write a whodunit called _Death by Feng
Shui_, but I figured the title would give the game away.

JL

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 1:20 AM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>
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> > "sheng nu"
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> Does this have a meaning in English? Or is its discovery left as an
> exercise for the reader? ;-)
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