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In a message dated 10/18/1999 11:44:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time, JBFRAME 
writes:

<< In a message dated 10/18/1999 10:21:46 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
Lycidas at worldnet.att.net writes:
 
 << GR.268.6 oss, the late, corrupt, dark-age Latin
  ? 
 Weisenburger has oss as a pun on the medieval Latin oss, meaning bone -- and 
OSS, Office of Strategic Services -- the WWII predecessor of the CIA.  The 
classical Latin is os.