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   in message news:3NadnfNQjf1kgavcRVn-rA@giganews.com...   
   > Tony Walton offered me a plate of cheese and whispered:   
   >> phishing wrote:   
   >>> "Prat" means what to this Canadian? Slang for "idiot"? Thanks.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Yup.  Originally, though, it meant "arse" (or "ass") as in "buttocks".   
   >> As in "pratfall".   
      
   > "Enzo Matrix"  wrote   
   > Really?  I was under the impression that it originally meant a lady's   
   > furry   
   > front bottom.   
      
   That is a new one on me, but it does rhyme with the word I am familiar with   
   that I have normally heard used. ;-)   
      
   --   
   Cheers.   
   Alex C.   
   There are 12,000,000 sheep in Ontario.   
   Problem is 9,000,000 of them think they are people.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)