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Subject: [aclug-L] Re: COX Cable change in email address.. when?
From: Clint Brubakken <cabrubak@xxxxxxx>
Date: 23 Apr 2002 08:40:35 -0500
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Get the straight dope on In Like Flynn from Cecil :

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_156.html



On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 21:25, Chris Owen wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, James O. Harms wrote:
> 
> > Glenn Wiens wrote:
> > > in like flint. (Oops -- that should date me, eh?)
> >
> > Actually, it's "in like Flynn".
> 
>
> 
> ...and and the orginal is a pretty much a reference to statutory rape.
> That may date it the most.  I doubt today such slang would probably become
> so commonly accepted given its origin (or supposed origin because some
> people disagree with it coming from Errol Flynn).
> 
> Chris
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