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Re: Bold brazen article

Posted by Bob on November 17, 2005

In Reply to: Bold brazen article posted by Jim on November 17, 2005

: I was called a "bold brazen article" by catholic school nuns a ton of times in the 1960s. Does anyone know where this came from?

Not exactly, but I'll bet they were Irish. The phrase sounds straight out of John Millington Synge.