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| | Salon People | Hey, let's crocodile and let's rock awhile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | The phrase recalls euphemisms for vaguely dusky events, or worse -- such as being drunk as David's sow, sentenced to the three-legged mare, facing the blind cupid, weathering a hail of beggar's bullets, tolerating the beetle-headed, slurping hum cap or being set upon by rattling mumpers. |
 | | In fact, however, "crocodile's birthday" is not a euphemism for anything (though it should be). |
 | | Coincidentally, just such an event, and a rather important one, was celebrated last week in Thailand at the Samut Prakarn Crocodile Farm. |
| www.salon.com /people/col/cruic/1999/06/12/crocodile (526 words) |
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