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From: kevin@sun.uucp (Kevin Sheehan)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: sayings
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Date: Sat, 26-Jan-85 02:06:12 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 26 02:06:12 1985
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I would assume the phrase "shut off the lights" would be more common
in england and the east than in california and such.  It seems to me
that it came from the time when killing lights involved shutting off
the gas valve...  who in california has turned off a gas light lately?
(except in response to PGE bills :-)
		l & h,
		kev