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Clément Lévy clemlevy at gmail.com
Sun Oct 4 04:13:39 CDT 2009



> he blurts, "Cootie food" which is like Reef's French
> in AtD, rather ignorant.


Well, French spelling, you know…
Love at the first sight in French is called "coup de  
foudre" (thunderbolt) which an imaginative English-speaking person  
might hear as "cootie food!"
I'd say Doc isn't ignorant, but enthusiastic and very excited about  
Clancy.
Clement





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