Posted by Wendy B. on September 28, 2001, at 20:14:51
In reply to Re:Susan C, posted by dreamer on September 27, 2001, at 13:31:30
wait a second, guys...
i thought the reason i laughed was because a cotton bud is a cotton swab, or a Q-tip, as americans call them. so i can see susan cleaning the windows with Q-tips and using thousands of them per window...
... and the term for cotton balls is cotton wool. right, dreamer? was married to a brit, who was so obsessive about cleaning, the house AND himself, that he poked his ear drum with a cotton bud, and got it infected and had to take antibiotics...
just for your erudition,
wendy
> >
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> > What is a cotton bud? is a
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> > a cotton ball
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> is...that would take a l l l oooooo nnnnn gggg time to clean a window with just an ittty bitty tinie winnie cotton ball.....? (something britishish I am sure)
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> > then ants and boulders, or my aunt in Boulder? Do you know all those ants running around are males...what is there to learn from Their Behavior?
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> I once saw ants in the Ladies loo some were powdering their thorax
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> > I dont DO drugs, thank you,
> Nor do I which is strange cause everone thinks I'm on em cause of my behavoiur.
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> dreamersillious
poster:Wendy B.
thread:11797
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