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  "thread": {
    "id": 475,
    "subject": "Another tip of the hat",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1998-05-16T00:05:00+00:00",
    "last": "1998-05-17T21:21:21+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0008-0637@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-16T00:05:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Another tip of the hat",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Brain,\n\nYay!  Stuff looks =great=!  \"Scrape out\" and \"Sweatin' ken,\"\nexcellent!\n\nRe: \"Card in a cart,\" this is used in regard to Orchid's proposal for\nSilk to have recreational sex \"on the house\" (er, free of charge):\n\n\"We're closed Hieraxday, so not then either.  But come in any other\nday and I'll give you a pass.  How's that? . . . You know what I\nmean, right, Patera?  Not me [whom you will dally with].  I mean with\nany of the girls, whoever you want.  If you'd like to give her a\nlittle something for herself, that's all right.  But you don't have\nto, and there won't be anything [paid] to the house.\"  Orchid\nconsidered again.  \"Well, a card in a cart, huh?  All right, that's a\nlay [i.e., a shag <g>] a month for a year.\"\n\nSo maybe all she is saying is that the total value of the gift is one\ncard?  \"A card in a cart\" being a fragment of some whorlish phrase\nlike \"A card in a cart is worth two in a bush\" (if you know what I\nmean and I think you do, nudge-nudge, wink-wink)?\n\nRe: Dimberdamber nanny nipper.  Okay!  \"Adroit coat-cutter thief\"\nlooks very good, especially as a coat-cutter thief must be pretty\nadroit to begin with.\n\nRe: \"Pure keg.\"  Agg!  The volume numbers are switched!  The two\ncitations should be (III, 115.7) and (II, 213.3).\n\n\"All right, she [Scylla] said it [about looting the wealthy quarter]\nand I believed it, and now I [Auk] got to let her know I'm the pure keg,\ntoo\" (II, 213.3).\n\nIn this case the sense seems to be \"one who acknowleges the favor of\nanother with a favor in kind.\"\n\nBustard speaking in Auk's mind: \"Give me the pure keg, sprat.  You\nwant me to winnow you out?  If I'm going to help, I got to know\"\n(III, 115.7).\n\nIn this case the sense seems to be \"the absolute truth.\"\n\nBrain good!\n\n=mantis="
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    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0008-0638@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Westlake",
        "address": "peter at harlequin.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-17T21:21:21+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Another tip of the hat",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0008-0637@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "At 00:05 1998/05/16 GMT, mantis wrote:\n..."
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Re: \"Pure keg.\"  Agg!  The volume numbers are switched!  The two\ncitations should be (III, 115.7) and (II, 213.3).\n\n\"All right, she [Scylla] said it [about looting the wealthy quarter]\nand I believed it, and now I [Auk] got to let her know I'm the pure keg,\ntoo\" (II, 213.3).\n\nIn this case the sense seems to be \"one who acknowleges the favor of\nanother with a favor in kind.\""
        },
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Or just \"faithful\", i.e. \"true\": that would make it the\nsame sense as below."
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          "text": "Bustard speaking in Auk's mind: \"Give me the pure keg, sprat.  You\nwant me to winnow you out?  If I'm going to help, I got to know\"\n(III, 115.7).\n\nIn this case the sense seems to be \"the absolute truth.\""
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          "text": "Brain gave several meanings for \"keg\", but didn't list \"barrel\"\namong them. How about \"pure keg\" being derived from beer straight\nfrom the keg, unwatered and unadulterated?\n\n Spectaced bear.\n\nPeter Westlake, Harlequin Ltd, Barrington Hall, Barrington, Cambs CB2 5RG."
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