[Ads-l] Urban legend? Or fact?

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Oct 5 02:17:32 UTC 2016


Agent Orange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange
It was given its name from the color of the orange-striped barrels in which
it was shipped and was, by far, the most widely-used of the so-called
"rainbow herbicides."

And is _striped_ disyllabic for anyone else but me?
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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