End of ADS-L Digest - 1 May 1995 to 2 May 1995

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There are 14 messages totalling 332 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. Cross-post: on n X short of a Y

 2. % % Goverment work (saying) (fwd)

 3. 86

 4. Business/[bIdnIs] (4)

 5. Cross-post: on n X short of a Y (4)

 6. one X short of a Y

 7. "Heather Lockheed"

 8. n x short of a y: the mother lode



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Date:  Wed, 3 May 1995 03:23:28 EDT

From:  kim mckinzey <74525.1614[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]COMPUSERVE.COM>

Subject: Re: Cross-post: on n X short of a Y



Just a week or so ago in the S.F. Chronicle was a copy of some lines from the

Texas Monthly,

including "Two sandwiches short of a picnic." Other examples I've heard over

the years include "A few eggs short of a dozen," "a few cards short of a deck,"