"Tom Swifties"

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Thu Mar 1 22:37:28 UTC 2001


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Jim Flanagan" <jamesf at a...> wrote:
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> "Welcome to my humble stall," said Myrtle, commodiously.
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I will not add any - just here to say that I am proud I actually 
understood that one.  To most Norwegians the term commode would bring 
up the image of a chest of drawers, which is termed "kommode" in 
Norwegian.  The term confused me quite a bit the first time I was in 
USA (as did the term "fruity", which I had no idea had any other 
emaning than the most obvious one - I accidentally used the term to 
describe myself at one time).






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