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Neil Ward wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE><tt>To me it was the aftermath of the "puff of green
smoke" - a warm, smoky, noxious, stifling cloud (like tobacco smoke in
a pub?). It was a word in my memory that presented itself to me as
the right one for the occasion. I must have picked up that usage
from somewhere! Dickens, perhaps?</tt></blockquote>
And here I thought that with all these thunderclaps and puffs of smoke,
you might simply have been backfiring. You might need a tune-up.
<p>--Amanda</html>