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Re: Comets

From: Garmt de Vries <G.deVries~at~fys.ruu.nl>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 13:51:03 +0100 (GMT+0100)
To: jvf~at~leeor.technion.ac.il


> Also with regard to "The Purchase of the North Pole" this is called
> "Sans dessus Dessous" in french. Does anyone know what the french words
> mean? a pun?
>
It means something like "Without up or down (Sans dessus ni dessous would
be better French.) IHetzel at first thought it had to be Sens dessus
dessous (everything upside down) but that was a mistake.

Garmt.
Received on Fri 29 Mar 1996 - 14:51:42 IDT

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