No 12 years olds please
Ted Samsel
tejas at infi.net
Fri Jan 31 11:35:47 CST 1997
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> >Today I learned in school that "bugger" comes from "Bulgarian."
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> >bye! Diana
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> Doubtless in a class taught by a Frenchman wearing a necktie.
Shouldn't that be a Croat (hravat) in cravat?
& boogeyman/boogerman comes from the Bugis Archipelago in the
East Indies. The Bugis were known as fierce piratical types
and gave the European mariners a hard time. Little Dutch
kids were scared into submission with threats of the Bugis.
Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net
"do the boogie woogie in the South American way"
Rhumba Boogie- Hank Snow (1955)
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