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Subject: [Leica] how to spell grackle
From: dpost at triad.rr.com (Dan Post)
Date: Tue Dec 7 07:29:44 2004
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MCyclWritr@aol.com wrote:

> 
>Grackle is also synonymous with "dead bird" in my backyard. Taken out with  
>an English-made, nicely figured walnut stock Air Arms TX200 Mark  V, 
>silenced 
>.17 pellet rifle. When the Brits abdicated the right to  own firearms, they 
>became really good at crafting guns that went "pffft"  rather than "BANG."  
> 
>Of course, spreading like a cancer as it always does, gun control in  
>England 
>has now eaten away the freedom to own an  air gun. Ninnies.
> 
>Chris Lawson 
> 
> pswango@att.net writes:
>
>In  English it's spelled "grackle", not gracel, grackel or gracle.  Rhymes  
>with "crackle."  ;-)
>
>
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Reminds me of the Kellog  cereal ad line... " Drat! Grackle! POP!"


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