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Doug Millison millison at online-journalist.com
Tue Jun 1 12:02:42 CDT 1999


At 11:49 AM -0500 6/1/99, keith woodward wrote:
>Speaking of...Does anyone know what the likelihood of there being a
>hospital for "Colonic and Respiratory Diseases" (46) is.

Such an institution could handle complaints "from asshole to appetite" (to
use U.S. Navy vernacular that I doubt changed much between the time my
father, who taught me this expression,  used it in WWII and TRP served as a
jolly Jack Tar a few years later).

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