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Unread 12-18-2008, 05:28 AM
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I've read about six or seven. All fur coat and no knickers as my old granny used to say. I agree with Janet that the Stravinsky one is better than the others I've read. I'm trying to imagine a context in which I would say 'naked buttocks'.

Charlotte Bronte said, 'Wow, sisters, what a man!
He laid me face down on the ottoman.
Now Don't you and Em'ly
Go telling the fem'ly,
But he smacked me upon my bare bottom, Ann!'

Pity they don't ask Conquest to read at Obama's thingy. By the way my Daily Telegraph has a picture of the man smoking with a hat on. Quite made me warm to him.
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