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Re: Small victory

To: "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Small victory
From: "Robert Duquette" <RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 20:52:43 -0500
Reply-to: "Robert Duquette" <RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca>
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>      Why a pair, you ask?  Well, otherwise you'd have to buy them one
handle
>at a time......
So ... a handle is a plier?

>       Having lived in Manila (PiliPeens),
Let's see now?
In a Manila envelope a pilips screwdriver can be used as a peen hammer ...

>>                                       Nuff said..............
More than ... :)


-----Original Message-----
From: IfixMGs@aol.com <IfixMGs@aol.com>

>      Why a pair, you ask?  Well, otherwise you'd have to buy them one
handle
>at a time......
>       Having lived in Manila (PiliPeens), where the letter P and F are
>often interchanged,   the term "A fair of flyers" (pair of pliers) is often
>confused with a "Pair of Plyers" (2 guys who drive airplanes) and a Fair of
>Fliers which can either be an Airshow, or a Channel-Lok Exposition,
depending
>on the frovince (never actually heard the word fronounced province.....)
In
>Japan, where a long ramp is often confused with the wrong lamp,   a pair of
>pliers  is two sclewdlivels tlying to take the rid off a paint can (priers)
>and a pair of priers has two handres fol roosening nuts......
>                                       Nuff said..............
>


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