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McSweeney's E-mail shorthand that civil war soldiers would likely have used in letters home had the technology been available to them
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The second annual Metamorphosism.com St. Valentine's Day Limerick Contest...
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wiL d 1Drz of d modern age nevr c'se?

PS: BURMA
Posted by Nabakov at February 12, 2005 01:55 PM

EOCAWKI

but to be fair, those work best when thumb-tapped by Shelby Foote.

PS - That's a polo term?
Posted by boynton at February 13, 2005 11:47 AM

BURMA = Be Undressed Ready My Angel- British Armed Forces circa 1944.

Now my nec k in is s on frie.
Posted by Nabakov at February 15, 2005 02:59 AM

Yes, ROGER that.

POLO is along the same lines (thanks Mr Google)
I had heard of NORWICH, but not EGYPT or ITALY.
Posted by boynton at February 15, 2005 08:58 AM