Not to get carried away, but
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>But what I do want to know was just what was the _point_ of her original
>interruption of 'Mandarin' accusations and that 'can(sic) you just be normal
>to each other'? And I'd like to know the answer to that from Erminia
>herself. I have to confess I find being described as Mandarin by someone who
>teaches at Oxford somewhat , um, 'rich'.
I seem to recall she had a smiley right after that request, so I took it as
a joke, as I thought did those who responded with more bad (good) puns.
oranges to mandarins to a lot of other funny stuff, & then to all these
arguments. Alas.
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
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