"Pico Rico" > wrote in
:

>>> Ergo the Brits became Limey's
>>
>> I heard they were allotted one peck of limes per week. Why
>> don't they call them peckers?
>>
>> -sw
>
> They tossed the rinds overboard. That is why we call them
> *******.

I thought they threw them overboard with a deft flick of the wrist,
which is why we call them ******s.

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priest: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to
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"Then why," asked the [Inuk], "did you tell me?"

Annie Dillard