satchi <satchi at mindspring.com> wrote in message
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>>> Jonathan Allan wrote:
> >
> > satchi wrote:
> > > Mark Wallace wrote:
> > > > "Riboflavin" <ribo at mindspring.com> wrote in message
> > > > news:9bgl3r$7nu$1 at slb5.atl.mindspring.net...> > > > > Charles R Martin wrote in message ...
> > > > > >> "If I was a hopeless cad, I apologize."
> > > > > >> "If I were a hopeless cad, I would never apologize."
> > > > > >
> > > > > >See, native English speakers know the difference.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >Now, what's a "cad" again? ;-)
> > > > > >
> > > > > It's a kind of fish, I think.
> > > >
> > > > They are caught with cadpoles.
> > >
> > > Usually on Cape Cad
> >
> > Not anymore. Eating cads caught in territorial waters is
dangerous
> > because of elevated mercury and dioxin levels (must be all the
> > button batteries and cell phone instruction pamphlets that get
> > trashed unread).
>> I have a brother who ate so much mercury filled cad we
> put him outside when we want to know the temperature.
>> Satchi
>http://www.bombhumor.com
That was a very quicksilver reply :~)
-d.max