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To: Quilla
LOL! I had to chuckle at the "down under" refence!

She called him a "bloke" ... I always thought that was a derogatory term in English movies, books, etc.

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43 posted on 07/02/2002 9:19:34 AM PDT by Geezerette
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To: Geezerette
LOL! I had to chuckle at the "down under" reference! She called him a "bloke" ... I always thought that was a derogatory term in English movies, books, etc.

,,, "bloke" is a coloquial linguistic train disaster. There's "joker" too, which is OK. Either one translates to "guy" - nothing derogatory about either though.

105 posted on 07/02/2002 2:02:20 PM PDT by shaggy eel
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