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|    Howard to Roger House    |
|    Re: A language/grammer question, I THINK    |
|    25 Nov 20 17:51:29    |
      From: howrdHol@yaooho.com              Roger House <61rroger@gmail.com> wrote              > The "U" is in brackets in       > the printed news piece, I didn't do it only by myself. Thanks       > everyone in advance!              To give an example, if Sonny the Coocoo took hostages and sent a note to       the police saying              "I am coocoo coocoo coocoo for Cocoa Puffs and unless you hand those Cocoa       Puffs over, I'm going to eat Count Chocula"              then a reporter might shorten that to say              "[U]nless you hand those Cocoa Puffs over, I'm going to eat Count Chocula"       was the threat issued by the deranged bird.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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