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Re: Flight of the Bumblee-Bee errata

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Subject: Re: Flight of the Bumblee-Bee errata
From: "Steve Heninghem" <steve.heninghem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 22:36:41 -0000
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Reply-to: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi Clint

>>     Thank you for the information. It will be quite helpful when I go to
G.B.
>> next year.  I'm trying to keep a list of definitions of unfamiliar terms
so
>> that I don't appear totally ignorant.  So far, knackered is the
strangest.
>>   My best to all my friends at RMBW.
>> Clint


If it helps, "knackered" comes from the times when horse rules the roads.
The old, sick, lame & lazy ones were taken to a specialist slaughterer of
horses, called a knackerman.  Hence, feeling very tired & low = to be
knackered.

Cheers

Steve

Steve Heninghem
Assistant
Tewit Youth Band
Harrogate
http://www.harrogate.co.uk/tyb


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