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To: Zeppo
...satellites were "knocked out"

That's just the Daily Mail hyping the story a little. If they really wanted to juice it, they would have said "knocked up".

6 posted on 10/26/2014 8:31:38 AM PDT by shove_it (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen -- Dennis Prager)
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To: shove_it
they would have said "knocked up".

Huh? How would being awakened have juiced up a story in the Daily Mail? English slang is not American slang. English ladies don't get knocked up; they fall pregnant.

7 posted on 10/26/2014 8:43:27 AM PDT by dorothy ( "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty." - Thomas Jefferson)
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