On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 03:44:48PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > >"treats" is what we give the dog :-). ...speaking of dogs and linguistic idiosyncrasies... in England "Bad Boy" is what you say to a puppy that has fouled the carpet. In America, Harley-Davidson think it's a cool name for a bike. Which gives rise to interesting images concerning someone walking into a bike dealer and asking for a Bad Boy and being handed a puppy which then widdles on him... > I live about 45 minutes from one of those "Sweetwater"-named towns > mentioned by another poster. How it got that name with the gyp-y water > in the area is beyond me. (One of the town's main industries is a gypsum > plant -- go figure.) Gypsum: calcium sulphate... you have really hard water which is good for rearing pigeons? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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