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From: jcf@world.std.com (Joseph C Fineman)
Subject: Re: Bostonian accent
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Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 21:00:17 GMT
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"Have a lodge budded pupcon" was a sign that used to appear at the
snack counter in the Somerville Theater.  Evidently there is more to
it than r-lessness.

A friend of mine heard one nurse ask another whether she had PSDS.
This was not an acronym for some loathsome disease.  I meant "pierced
ears."
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        Joe Fineman             jcf@world.std.com
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