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RE: Knackered Bearings

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Subject: RE: Knackered Bearings
From: "David Breneman" <DAVID.BRENEMAN@dhl.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 13:23:54 -0800
 -----Original Message-----
 From: Rocky Frisco [mailto:rock@rocky-frisco.com]
 
> Knackers = bollox.
> 
> Knackered = f##ked
> 
> Source = England

I recall reading in an MG history that there was an engineer at Abingdon
that the workers referred to as "Old Nitchie Knackers" because of his
tendancy to absentminedly scratch, uh, himself when he was thinking out
a problem.





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