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To: Chickensoup

That would be half staff, not half mast. Unless the post office is on a ship.

Sorry, pet peeve.


5 posted on 08/07/2012 12:07:41 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Eat Mor Chikin!)
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To: SandyInSeattle

That would be half staff, not half mast. Unless the post office is on a ship.

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11 posted on 08/07/2012 12:13:16 PM PDT by Chickensoup (STOP The Great O-ppression)
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To: SandyInSeattle

Wrong.

In the Marines, it is always “Mast” on land or sea.


19 posted on 08/07/2012 12:24:22 PM PDT by Kansas58
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To: SandyInSeattle

In the Marines, it is always “Mast” on land or sea.

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21 posted on 08/07/2012 12:26:02 PM PDT by Chickensoup (STOP The Great O-ppression)
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To: SandyInSeattle

Since you are about the only one in the country who knows that you must be constantly peeved.


25 posted on 08/07/2012 12:33:22 PM PDT by DManA
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To: SandyInSeattle
That would be half staff, not half mast.

You may be right, but I'm pushing 60, and that's the way I've heard it my whole life.

39 posted on 08/07/2012 12:48:23 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: SandyInSeattle

>>Sorry, pet peeve.<<

More like Obsessive compulsive disorder.

Couldn’t leave it could ya.


42 posted on 08/07/2012 1:16:06 PM PDT by servantboy777
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