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Re: slang?

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Subject: Re: slang?
From: Alastair Wheeler <alastair.wheeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:05:26 +0100 (BST)
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On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Carl Webster wrote:

> I do not understand a phrase you used.  Would you mind explaining it to
> me?
> 
> "I spent most of the day in the 9s"

The Royal College of Music (just oposite the Albert hall) has 98 rooms,
hence the students name for the local pub - the 99th room.  Well, I'd
never head it called the Mews before...

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  Alastair Wheeler
  Euphonium & Trombone			   Fundamental Brass
  Bass Trombone			  City of Oxford Brass Band
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  "I am following my fish"


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