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'Biffey'? I thought that term faded from use eons ago!
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Mike - I was trying to comment on the French. They're the ones who eat guts de la becasse. I understand that Brits enjoy normal things like Steak and Kidney pie, and their northern contingent enjoys a simple Haggis. Yum
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David, good thing you changed it. An American would have a tough time getting his tongue around that, although it'd be just fine in French.
When I was in Morocco, the State Dept security guy down in Casablanca was named Hicks. In French, that would be pronounced "eeks"--which is the same way they pronounce the letter X. We had a lot of fun with him: Mr. X, the security man. Larry, this will be my last feeble attempt to hijack this topic. I posted that mostly tongue in cheek, although I think it is true at some point in history. My surname showed up in England after 1066 and went through several changes. At one time it was Dreux, Drogo, Dryw, Dru, and finally just Drew. I like to hassle people who have Drew as a Christian name. I tell them it has been an honorable surname for a thousand years.
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No, we still call them biffeys up here in the Great White North, Roundsworth!
Turdugs, some upper class Brits actually do eat snipe entrails on toast, it's all one tube, I'm told by my father, but we never did, I did not know the French ate becasse clockwork though.
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David, this one has wandered enough that I don't think you need to concern yourself with a hijacking charge. But did you ever consider the possibility of naming a son Drew Drew?? 
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David, this one has wandered enough that I don't think you need to concern yourself with a hijacking charge. But did you ever consider the possibility of naming a son Drew Drew?? Too much like Sirhan Sirhan. 
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Don't have much to add except to say I love the way this thread wandered.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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Um, guys, if I may, how do you pronounce Eley and Kynoch??
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