RE: How to insult most everybody in one step...

[alfred@ajkco.com]

Oh, I get it! A turret's that blurry surface up there that's the first
thing you see when the bartender wakes you up and tells you get up off the
floor?

-Alfred



At 08:05 AM 12/16/97 +1100, you wrote:
>Jack....
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>You wrote....
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>"Could you please translate "turret into American English?"
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>As always I forget that English is not universal in certain terms (viz,
hood, trunk, bonnet, boot, etc), whereas the list itself  is universal -
mea culpa.
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>Turret in this context referred to the roof of the saloon (see there I go
again - sedan) car.
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>....Andrew
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