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Re: Love-Hounds digest V12 #22

From: Val Paino <val@eagles.bbs.net.au>
Date: 30 Jan 1996 02:41:38 GMT
Subject: Re: Love-Hounds digest V12 #22
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> Bryan writes:
>
> > Another "error" is in "Where Are the Lionhearts/Lionhearts" the > > lines:
> >  Climbing up the adders
> >  To slide down the adders
> > surely should be:
> > Climbing up the ladders
> > To slide down the adders
> > as in the childrens game "snakes and ladders", which I've seen called
> > here (MN, USA) "chutes and ladders", same game?
> > I can imagine again a "reado", "writo", or "singo" (as in typo).

Bryan, considering "adders" *are* snakes, another name for vipers, the
only venomous snake in Britain, your point is surely a moot one!

Regards, Val