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To: antiunion person

When arrested, his first comment was “I want to buy a vowel”.


6 posted on 05/22/2009 11:38:13 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Mr. Bernanke, have you started working on your book about the second GREATER depression?")
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder; BunnySlippers; abigkahuna

If I’m not mistaken (and I rarely am) thw “X” in the first name represents a “click” sound, used as a vowel in the Niger-Bantu languages of the Xhosa tribes.

It’s the same group from whence Africa got such cultural icons as Miriam Makeba and Winnie Mandela.


15 posted on 05/23/2009 12:00:43 AM PDT by shibumi (" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
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