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Date:      Wed, 03 Jun 1998 04:55:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Subject:   Re: ATTENTION ports maintainers !
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980603045550.dburr@POBoxes.com>
In-Reply-To: <199806031117.NAA00932@greenpeace.grondar.za>

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My secret spy satellite informs me that on 03-Jun-98, Mark Murray wrote:

> Donald Burr wrote:
>> > What the heck is "sweetmeats" ?
>> 
>> Trust me.  You don't want to know.
>> 
>> Hint: (at least in the Old English usage) it meant basically "parts of
>> animals that one would normally not consider eating"...
> 
> Not so. That is sweet_breads_.

Cool.  I finally get to stymie my English teacher. :)

Actually, it would be really ironic if "sweetmeats" turned out to mean
"extremely sweat products made from flour and sugar and yeast"...

Anyway, I'll drop this thread now (since it is inappropriate for
ports)... but should somone have the urge to reply, please do so to
freebsd-chat.
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