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Old 11-11-2006, 05:07 PM   #40
Trilby
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Originally Posted by sproglet
Ah, but there's a subtle difference between thinking and knowing.
That-sproglet-is very, VERY good stuff. May I have the courtesy? Only a true Brit would think in those terms (you must, really, forgive Americans, because they are completly without an inheritant class system, a system you Admirable Brits have cleverly devised and we Yanks have continually ignored)...and continue to follow no matter what. Bully for you.

I think many, many Americans (if I may so present them, bandits as they are) would be only too glad to help you 'remember' the differance betx "thinking" and "knowing"
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