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   Hi, Anton!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:   
      
   AH>  Also being pedantic, I think of the businessman in London   
   AH>  who never opens his neatly furled umbrella because it would   
   AH>  require so much time & effort to restore the thing to its   
   AH>  original condition whereas many people around these parts   
   AH>  don't seem to bother trying.   
      
   AS>  Being one of such men, I know what you mean. Luckily, my   
   AS>  father taught me to furl an umbrella nice and tidy in a   
   AS>  jiffy, so now I feel a quiet superiority over people I   
   AS>  meet with poorly furled umbrellas.   
      
      
              Mine is reasonably neat, but not up to London standards.  :-)   
      
      
      
   AS>  Even clerks in fashion boutiques can't furl them as well   
   AS>  as I do!   
      
      
              On the basis of my own experience, I'm not surprised.  If you   
   hadn't already acquired this skill I'd recommend consulting the folks at a   
   traditional haberdashery which offers "men's furnishings" or "gentlemen's   
   apparel"....  :-Q   
      
      
      
   AH>  I see that my CANADIAN OXFORD defines "furl" as meaning   
   AH>  "roll up and secure".   
      
   AS>  Does really "roll up" an umbrealla?   
      
      
              I'd say so.  Once closed it can be rolled around the equivalent of   
   a tent pole... officially known as the "shaft"... and secured by a matching   
   piece of cloth with snap fasteners or Velcro or whatever on both ends.  :-)   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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