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From: aaw@pyuxss.UUCP (Aaron Werman)
Newsgroups: net.wanted
Subject: 'meanwhile bach at the ranch' origin query
Message-ID: <346@pyuxss.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-Jun-84 11:45:38 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 25 11:45:38 1984
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my SO and I have independently been using the expression
'meanwhile, back at the ranch' to signal an abrupt change of topic.
Etymological curiousity requires my asking what is the origin of this
expression. I would be interested to learn if it is used outside
our *folie a` deux*
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			Aaron Werman