End of ADS-L Digest - 24 Oct 1994 to 25 Oct 1994

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There are 21 messages totalling 501 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. Nigger stick (surveyor's rod)

 2. offending idioms (3)

 3. go/come with (2)

 4. Offensive terms (4)

 5. 40-11

 6. Distribution of positive "anymore" (2)

 7. a couple (of) things

 8. P.S. re Offending Idioms

 9. Larry Davis: a gentleman and scholar of the old school (2)

 10. love handles

 11. "I don't care" -- a footnote

 12. Is "conservative" a slander word?

 13. "Home Training"



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Date:  Wed, 26 Oct 1994 11:46:00 GMT

From:  "Warren A. Brewer" <NCUT054[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]TWNMOE10.BITNET>

Subject: Nigger stick (surveyor's rod)



For the record, since we're collecting such stuff, when I was with a

California National Guard engineering batallion in 1985, we had a private

who called the surveying rod a "nigger stick". For a short while.



                   ---Wab.