Re: Uzbekistan: not just a country any more

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From: Julian Macassey
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 17:02

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On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 14:45:26 GMT, Ciccio <francescod@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Excuse me?  You've seen my picture; I doubt I'm much, if at all,
>> older than you are.  Besides, I don't take issue with the way
>> you used "troll," i.e., as a verb.  My objection regarding that
>> word is people using it as a noun.  A person who trolls isn't a
>> "troll"; he's a *troller.*
>
> Another esoteric use of troll as a noun is among cops and it predates the
> internet. 

	When I was a youth in the 60s, trolling was a term used
about homosexual men out looking for sex, often by kerb crawling,
or lurking in toilets.



-- 
The coke habit in the US alone was worth $35 billion in 2000 - about $10
billion more than Microsoft brought in that year. - Joshua Davis, Wired Mag

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From: Julian Macassey <julian@tele.com>
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Subject: Re: Uzbekistan:  not just a country any more
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 17:02:42 -0000
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