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From: Ubiquitous <weberm@*******.net>
Subject: Re: [SR2] Useless(?) Physad Powers
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 00:39:56 -0400 (EDT)
At 10:26 PM 9/23/96 -0600, you wrote:
>Ubiquitous wrote:

>>You mean it's not spelled "oral"?
>
>No, oral deals with the mouth.
>
> An oral exam is one that the instructor read out loud for the students.
>
> An oral thermometer is the one you stick under your tongue.

Oh, I never realized they were homonyms (two words that sound alike with
different spellings).

>Any other silly questions?

Yes, what is the average airspeed of a great dragon carrying a coconut?

--
"I dyde shyte thre grete toordes." Fables of Aesop,
Caxton translation,
V15 1484

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