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|    Mike Powell to ALEXANDER KORYAGIN    |
|    Funny story about Russian    |
|    20 Feb 24 08:45:00    |
      TZUTC: -0500       MSGID: 2089.englisht@1:2320/105 2a39ee46       REPLY: 2:221/6.0 65d482f2       PID: Synchronet 3.19c-Linux master/cb76b1463 Feb 20 2022 GCC 7.5.0       TID: SBBSecho 3.14-Linux master/cb76b1463 Feb 20 2022 GCC 7.5.0       BBSID: CAPCITY2       CHRS: ASCII 1       > AH> Depends on what the fence was made of. I think Gleb has a point in       > AH> that this announcement may have been written on a scrap of       > AH> cardboard which the protagonist attached to the fence using       > AH> whatever came readily to hand.... :-)              >IMHO when you say "to post" it implies the mail service. Give me an example if       > am wrong. At the very least the man could nail his message. :)              It can mean that. I think that meaning is more often used in British       English than here in America.              It can also mean to attach a message to a physical cork bulletin board,       wall, fencepost, telephone pole, etc., such as "I posted a for sale flyer       on the break room bulletin board" or "I posted the lost pet flyers to       several phone poles in the neighborhood."                      * SLMR 2.1a * IF IsStolen. THEN GOTO InsultThief       --- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux        * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (1:2320/105)       SEEN-BY: 1/19 15/0 16/0 19/37 90/1 105/81 106/201 116/17 18 123/10       SEEN-BY: 123/130 128/260 129/305 135/225 142/104 153/757 7715 154/10       SEEN-BY: 154/30 40 50 700 203/0 218/700 840 220/90 221/1 6 360 226/18       SEEN-BY: 226/30 227/114 229/110 112 113 206 307 317 426 428 470 664       SEEN-BY: 229/700 240/5832 266/512 280/5003 282/1038 291/111 301/1       SEEN-BY: 320/119 219 319 2119 322/757 335/364 341/66 234 342/200 396/45       SEEN-BY: 423/81 460/58 712/848 2320/0 105 304 401 3634/12 5020/400       SEEN-BY: 5020/1042 5075/35       PATH: 2320/105 154/10 221/6 1 320/219 229/426           |
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