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Date: | Sat, 15 Jan 2000 07:08:56 -0500 |
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Note from Hayseed country: That may be concrete in 'at 'ar truck but it's
a CEMENT MIXER. Guess if you mix cement, pronounced SEEment, with whatever
you mix it with, it becomes concrete. BTW: What is cement and where does
it come from? I know it doesn't grow on trees, does it? Ruth
At 8:26 PM 01/14/2000, Ralph Walter wrote:
>In a message dated 1/14/2000 12:41:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
>writes:
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><< Cement... as in that gray powdery stuff? Or is this a grumpy architect
> confused over concrete?
> >>
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>As we says in Joisey, that's the pernt. I've managed to cure the little
>Ralphs of calling that material cement, and most of the time She Who Must Be
>Obeyed refers to it properly, too. I even wrote to Safire, trying to
>straighten him out, but he was in his 60-million-minkeys-can't-be-wrong mode.
>
>Do any of us (or any of Them) refer to bread as "flour" or "yeast?" I think
>not.
>
>Ralph
Ruth (HOUGHTON) BARTON
Westminster,Vermont, USA
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