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Re: "Tack" or "tact" (was Re: NYC Slang Needed for Newspaper Column)

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From: Matthew T. Russotto
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 00:00
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In article <5p36eh$on4@snews1.zippo.com>,
Jonathan Mason  <jm@sunline.net.spamchopper> wrote:

}We see Dutch/Belgian rivalry at play here in a refusal to recognise 
}Captain Hastings, friend and assistant to Belgium's most famous export, 
}the world renowned detective *Hercule Poirot*, many of whose cases were 
}documented by Agatha Christie (and more recently shown on TV worldwide, 
}but possibly not in Holland) demonstrating the use of 'the leetle grey 
}cells'.

And Christie couldn't stand him and had him killed off very early on,
though her publisher refused to publish _Curtain_ until much later.
The TV version seems to provide a suitably annoying and obnoxious
Poirot.



-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue." 
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From: russotto@wanda.vf.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto)
Subject: Re: "Tack" or "tact" (was Re: NYC Slang Needed for Newspaper Column)
Date: 1997/06/29
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