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From: thoth@tellab3.UUCP (Marcus Hall)
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Subject: Re: great typo in "Stainless Steel Rat is Born"
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Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 17:04:36 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 18 17:04:36 1985
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In article <3260@nsc.UUCP> chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>As long as we're talking about typos, I just started Harrison's new book "A
>Stainless Steel Rat is Born" (Spectra, $2.95). There is a REALLY cute typo
>in the first chapter (page 4, as a matter of fact) that goes "Imagine if
>you can -- and you will need a fertile imagination indeed -- a one-tonne
>angry boar hog with sharp tushes and mean dispositions."
>
>I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to be sat upon by that
>animal..... You don't suppose they really meant tusks, do you??? *giggle*

_Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, 1977_

1 tush: a long pointed tooth; esp : a horse's canine
2 tush: used to express disdain or reproach

marcus hall
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