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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch
I remember when my friend Michael asked the waiter about "la pāte en forme de cygne" but he misspoke and said "en forme de singe." How the waiter laughed -- he nearly fell into the mill stream! Good times.
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A shanty Irish prole like me would make the point through the use Steve Martin's "omelette du frommage" routine from his "Let's Get Small" album.
Also, many Americans went off to war before 1917 -- see e.g. the Lafayette Escadrille. Perhaps the tree ate the bike because the young man joined the Canadian Army and died of mustard gas at Ypres, you heartless bastard.