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Subject: [OM] Re: Olympus in Australia, and supply of the three fourths adapter
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 16:26:43 +0100
Yes, I remember "galoot" from either cartoons or westerns ...

Chris
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On 27 May 2005, at 15:35, Walt Wayman wrote:

> Perhaps the terminology is suspect.  Since I was a little  
> whippersnapper I have associated the term "galoot" with Gabby Hayes  
> and any number of other cantankerous but lovable sidekicks in the  
> westerns I grew up watching.  Too late, after composing and sending  
> off my bit of doggerel, I happened to look up the word in the event  
> someone not familiar with it should ask its meaning.  I was  
> surprised to find it means "a clumsy or uncouth person."  I  
> certainly don't mean in any way to imply that Brian is either.  I  
> do suspect, however, that, like myself and a certain unnamed  
> Australian, he may have a bit of Gabby Hayes in him.  :-)
>
> Walt (not Whitman)
>


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