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From: pooh@ut-sally.UUCP (Pooh @ Communist Martyrs High)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: How do you spell...
Message-ID: <2965@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Sep-85 16:33:51 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 22 16:33:51 1985
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In article <278@sask.UUCP> mcdonald@sask.UUCP (Shane McDonald) writes:
>I was just wondering how people spell various noises.
>For example, "phhhhht" (which isn't quite wet enough).
>Or, "brawnk" for a good, low belch.  There's gotta be
>something better than "bar-room" for those slimey farts.
>Is the English language sufficient to cover these sounds?

Well, I have always spelled those dry raspberries as "pthpthpthpthpth."
The wetter ones are "pthbpthbpthbpthb."

And it was once pointed out to me that whenever you
drink a Coke, you develop an urge to "call your
neighbor, *Bob*."

Pooh  (It's just this little chromium switch. . .)

topaz!unipress!pooh, pur-ee!pooh


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