On 2014-07-02 5:26 PM, Nellie wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 2, 2014 2:13:38 PM UTC-7, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2014-07-02 4:59 PM, graham wrote:
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>>> On 02/07/2014 2:38 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
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>>>> On 2014-07-02 4:06 PM, sf wrote:
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>>>>>> Sounds like sage advice for any young woman. In my awesome opinion,
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>>>>>> men are pretty much pigs.
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>>>>> Rooting pigs is more to the point.
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>>>> LOL.... You may know that rooting is a euphemism for the sex act in
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>>>> Australia. A number of years ago some good friends of ours visiting
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>>>> cousins in Australia and had taken a number of Roots sweat shirts as
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>>>> gifts for the children. The parents were not pleased.
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>>> I remember a t-shirt with the following on it:
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>>> "A wombat eats roots shoots and leaves" (no punctuation)
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>>> {:-)
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>> I thought it was "... eats roots and leaves"
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> The book is _Eats Shoots and Leaves_ it is about grammar and punctuation.
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Maybe I am confusing it with the joke about a koala arguing with a
hooker he had oral sex with and did not want to pay. He pointed to the
definition of koala in the dictionary, an Australian marsupial that eats
bush and leaves.