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<I could be slow, but it took me a while (a good way through the
recent
> campaign) to realize what "dubya" meant. When I read the epithet "dubya"
> where people were referring to Bush, I didn't immediately grasp that
> "dubya"
> meant "W.". I'm not always the sharpest knife in the drawer.>
>
It's not just you, Scott. It took me a while to work it out.
<BTW, everytime I fracture the English language from now on, I will
refer to
> my blunder as a "Bushism". Aren't there websites devoted to the
> cataloguing
> of Bush's verbal gaffes?>
>
There's a website called 'Bush or Chimp?' (sorry don't have the
url), which is very funny, with just photos of Bush and chimps sharing
various facial expressions and postures.
You have to laugh... well unless you're Mexican, as I hear that's
where he's off to on his first foreign policy visit.
Vincent
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