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Salut/Hi Michael Pronay,

le/on 17 Jun 2004 08:06:54 GMT, tu disais/you said:-

I HAVE to admit that one completely eluded me, dumbo that I am.

As you may have seen, StocksRus has in fact apologised to you. So perhaps not too much harm has been done.

A bota, tout court, yes, that was it.

M.

You know, there's a kind of leather that many people think is pretty good and only costs one-fifth of Napa Leather... they call it Modesto Leather...

;-)

in article snipped-for-privacy@corp.supernews.com, Max Hauser at snipped-for-privacy@THIStdl.com wrote on 6/15/04 8:54 PM:

Most of my international exposure has been in Asia, so I have little basis upon which to know whether the word "Bullshit" has the same meaning/usage in Austria that it has in the US. The poster who used it (usually one of the pillars of this group, I believe) said it was an allusion to the bulls of Pamplona. Where I come from it would only allude to the red cape of the matador and produce the same result. That, I believe, is what happened here.

International dialogue is tricky enough. Even trickier when you can't see the other person.

Midlife wrote in news:BCFCE59D.4F20% snipped-for-privacy@cox.net:

I did take offence at the word "bullshit", but the humour alluded me and now that I GET it, it really is quite witty. I applaude the poster who wrote it. Sometimes it takes a bit of explanation for my feeble mind to comprehend a good joke.