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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: yada
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Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 21:56:55 GMT
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In article <glen.831651064@heurikon.com>,
Glen Ecklund <glen@scooter.heurikon.com> wrote:
>Can anyone tell me what this means, and where it comes from?

	I have no idea what its origins are, but my Jewish
friends often use it as an equivalent of "blah blah blah" or
"and so on and so on".  E.g., "And she forgot the keys, be-
cause she thought Ted was bringing them, and she doesn't want
to call because she'll wake him up, and yadda yadda yadda.  So
we go back to the car..."  


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