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Article #1802Re: "Tack" or "tact" (was Re: NYC Slang Needed for Newspaper Column)
From: Matthew T. Russotto
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 00:00
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In article <5p36eh$on4@snews1.zippo.com>, Jonathan Mason <jm@sunline.net.spamchopper> wrote: }We see Dutch/Belgian rivalry at play here in a refusal to recognise }Captain Hastings, friend and assistant to Belgium's most famous export, }the world renowned detective *Hercule Poirot*, many of whose cases were }documented by Agatha Christie (and more recently shown on TV worldwide, }but possibly not in Holland) demonstrating the use of 'the leetle grey }cells'. And Christie couldn't stand him and had him killed off very early on, though her publisher refused to publish _Curtain_ until much later. The TV version seems to provide a suitably annoying and obnoxious Poirot. -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@pond.com "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue."
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10675b,86dbe4afd465904d X-Google-Attributes: gid10675b,public X-Google-Thread: 102ffd,86dbe4afd465904d X-Google-Attributes: gid102ffd,public X-Google-Thread: 10b097,f40900480e4e7255 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b097,public X-Google-Thread: 101049,86dbe4afd465904d X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public From: russotto@wanda.vf.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto) Subject: Re: "Tack" or "tact" (was Re: NYC Slang Needed for Newspaper Column) Date: 1997/06/29 Message-ID: <5p7322$k3j@wanda.vf.pond.com> X-Deja-AN: 253521499 References: <339b0c66.5605160@news.interport.net> <33b361a5.16728476@news.dial.pipex.com> <19970628120935684305@p016.hlm.euronet.nl> <5p36eh$on4@snews1.zippo.com> Organization: Ghotinet Newsgroups: nyc.general,alt.usage.english,bit.listserv.words-l,dc.general