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Subject:Re: homophones From:Randy Allen Harris <raha -at- WATARTS -dot- UWATERLOO -dot- CA> Date:Wed, 26 Jan 1994 18:23:04 -0500
Sign in front of a roadhouse advertising that a poop-kicking country=
back
is returning:
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The Good Brothers! Their back!
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Sign in a demonstration of American Autoworkers protesting the remark=
of a
Japanese official that maybe Japanese companies were outselling US
companies because they had a better-educated workforce:
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Japan says your stupid
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Sign in a restaurant window in Toronto advertising a hot coffee and=
steamed
milk drink more renowned in Qu=E9bec, where it is called "caf=E9=
au lait":
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We have caf=E9 ol=E9.
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Randy Allen Harris
raha -at- watarts -dot- uwaterloo -dot- ca =
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Rhetoric and Professional Writing, Department of English, University=
of
Waterloo, Waterloo ON N2L 3G1, CANADA; 519 885-1211, x5362; FAX:=
519 884-8995
