<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 11/14/02 5:57:03 AM Pacific Standard Time, ajacobson@igc.org writes:
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<BR>of (in Russian) "mat" or a kind of general colloquialism that is often sexual
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<BR>Kind of like if a reporter asked Bush a question and Bush replied "go piss up
<BR>a rope."
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<BR>I'm not sayin', I'm askin'...
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<BR>Alan Jacobson
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<BR>That possibility occurred to me too. I checked various print sources at home and haven't talked to actual humans to see what they say.
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