Jonathan Allan wrote in message <3ADC2F80.26650277 at mayo.edu>...
>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).
>Yeah, I hate the way everyone started using those No-Cad batteries.
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