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Re: OT: To you people in the US
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Roy Brown <[log in to unmask]>
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Roy Brown <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:43:05 +0100
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In message <[log in to unmask]>, Brice Yokem 
<[log in to unmask]> writing at 09:18:32 in his/her local time opines:-
>>
>>But Yank was used, in the Second World War, to refer to the generally
>>unsatisfactory manufacturing standards of ladies' underwear - "One yank,
>>and they're off".
>>
>
>...Or the way the British women acted around Americans...  ;->
>
>
The three 'overs':-

Over paid
Over sexed
....and....
Over here
:-)

(N.B. My mother's good friend Jesse was a GI bride.
  > 60 years in Rochester NY now, and still going strong.... )
-- 
Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris

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