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Re: Heads We're Dancing

From: E Welsh <ecwu59@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 20 May 90 22:31:31 GMT
Subject: Re: Heads We're Dancing
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Organization: Edinburgh University Computing Service
References: <9005181925.AA18714@uunet.uu.net> <45251@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: E Welsh <ecwu59@castle.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <45251@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Jeff writes:
>Try expanding the title to something like "If the penny lands with the 
>head up, we are going to dance."
>
>Yeah, I know that's silly, but that's what the title's saying.

Not silly, just British ! It's just one of those colloquial things...
Like 'Heads I win, tails you lose.'

By the way Jeff, I think the phrase you're looking for is  "I'll always
take the round-about way". Maybe you just couldn't fit it onto your sig. ;-)

Ev.


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