Re: To clarify the link for CWShredder Update

From: Jim Eshelman (newsgroups_at_NSaumha.org)
Date: 02/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 11:48:58 -0800

Sandi - Microsoft MVP wrote:
> Apparently you *mericans don't do that sort of thing.

No, we have other euphemisms <vbg>

Besides, the anthropologically correct term is Merkins. 

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