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    Not worth arguing about.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot View Post
    You've never been around a group of Irish Guardsmen, then. Their regimental nickname is "The Micks", and from what a friend of mine who served with them while stationed in London has said, the only way they would knock you out is if you implied that their nickname is pejorative.

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    I guess it's all experience. Because you must have never been to Southie Aka south Boston. I have a few associates there that would give some one a close shave if you called them a Mick. Regardless of the meaning behind your use… by close shave I mean really really close. Like to your spine close.

    * I don't mean YOU you. I mean anyone.
    Let YOUR utterance be always with graciousness, seasoned with salt, so as to know how you ought to give an answer to each one.
    Colossians 4:6

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    First pint is on me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot View Post
    First pint is on me.

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    I'll get the second...or a dram if your prefer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot View Post
    Not worth arguing about.
    Quite (as Hector Naismith Macdonald would say)!

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