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   From: allan@noemail.co.uk   
      
   "Robert Peffers."  wrote in message   
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   >>>>>A Connochie? What is a connochie?   
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   >>>> A small, painful polyp. It's a dialect word.   
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   >>> I thought it was an Italian pastry...   
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   >> Speaking of which an old girlfriend of mine had Italian parents. The   
   >> mother couldn't get her tongue round my name at all. She insisted on   
   >> calling me Allan Cockaleekie :-)   
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   >> Allan   
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   > I had a girl friend when I was young who had Italian parents. This girl   
   > was a real stunner and you could not fault her looks neither face or   
   > figure. She also had a very sweet nature. After I had married my first   
   > wife I was in Edinburgh and was greeted by her in The Meadows. I couldn't   
   > believe it, she must have been all of 22 stone and had a long stream of   
   > her brood trailing behind her.   
      
      
   Lucky escape for the both of us then :-)   
      
      
   Allan   
      
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