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Re: UK Love Is Blind

From The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity, alt.usage.english, rec.arts.tv
Subject Re: UK Love Is Blind
Date 2026-09-20 00:26 -0700
Organization The Starmaker Organization
Message-ID <6AAF8A9F.3E0A@ix.netcom.com> (permalink)
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Radey Shouman wrote:
> 
> Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> writes:
> 
> >  Ar an seachtú lá déag de mí Méan Fómhair, scríobh Bertel Lund Hansen:
> >
> >  > Den 17.09.2026 kl. 08.25 skrev Aidan Kehoe:
> >  >
> >  > >   > El Paso certainly exists. It appears in a Danish children's song.
> >  > >   >
> >  > >   >      Jeg har min hest jeg har min lasso. (hest = horse)
> >  > >   >      Jeg har min kær'ste i El Paso. (kæreste = sweetheart)
> >  > >
> >  > > But is that El Paso, Texas, or El Paso, Illinois?
> >  >
> >  > I never thought about that before, but I suppose that it's Texas. Isn't that
> >  > the most cowboyish state?
> >
> > I believe Wyoming or Montana would be in the running, but I await comment from
> > our New World posters.
> 
> If you ask someone from Texas, then the answer will be Texas.  If you
> ask almost anyone else, the answer might be Wyoming, or Montana, or New
> Mexico, or Oregon, or somewhere else.  Actual working cowboys are pretty
> thin on the ground wherever you go.
> 
> --
> 

"thin on the ground"??? What kind of 'english.usage' is dat?

wat does dat even mean??? Is dat London talk? 


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