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Re: pet peeve of mine

From: Edward Lipsett <translation@i...>
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 13:28:31 +0900
Subject: Re: pet peeve of mine


There was a great picture in Mad magazine years ago, about what kids
thought
when they read newspaper headlines:
Guerillas Attack Across Plain of Jars

And guess what the kid thought? (Jars is in Laos, IIRC)

on 02.7.2 1:24 PM, Scott Siebold at gamers@ameritech.net scribbleth:
>
>> A 'Gorilla' is big ape.
>> A 'Guerrilla' war is partisan warfare

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