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"This isn`t an office, it`s hell with fluorescent lighting." <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:23:34 -0500
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Re: Perforation -- or peroration?
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> In a message dated 12/12/2003 9:52:51 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
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>     there is no reason to cheapen the high level of discourse here by
>     using barnyard vulgarism
>
> *Sir:*
> **
> *You have made a common (which is to say vulgar) error in taking a
> technical term widely accepted and understood within the construction
> industry (and as I understand it, other industries, as well as the
> legal and medical fraternities) for a common barnyard epithet.*
> **
> *Ralph*

OK... now I'm wondering just what the technical term was.

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