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: "whose boar ate the cabbage?"

Posted by Heldmyw on August 31, 2001

In Reply to: What's it mean or where did it come from posted by q.h. on August 31, 2001

Purely speculative on my part...for which I apologize (not very academic of me). But I'd place a small wager on this being a (ahem!) flatulence-related reference. Probably gasped out by someone after a real nose-wrinkler. i.e. "Whose rhino ate the hard-boiled eggs?", etc.

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