----Original Message----- >From: dorisopran@a... <dorisopran@a... <
(not!)
>Date: Saturday, June 16, 2001 12:36 PM
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>In a message dated 6/16/01 10:59:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>erniev@2... writes:
I wrote,
><< or gargle with it or Aguardiente if you're > adverse to distilled spirits. > >> > Doris observes: >But Ernie, in Brazil, Aquadente IS a distilled spirit: >cachaça, or aguardente >de cana, obtida da destilação da garapa. >Think sugar cane!!!! What is >Aquardiente you are talking about?
I respond: Insert: [drinking] between "to" & "distilled"... ...by meaning to say that: if you don't like drinking distilled spirits - gargle & spit!
EV who would deem it appropriate for my use of the accepted form of "DOH!" as indicated in the newest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
& wouldn't mind a tall cold glass of "mojito" just about now! 8^)
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