From: <mandrake_at_litenverden.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:50:12 -0700 (PDT)

> I don't agree Fred, as a native Englishman, certainly I don't think
> those who use it would recognise your deffinition.
>
> Rob
>
<snip>

As a Yank living in England a few years ago, the "blow me" expresssion was
a hoot. I think it comes from a nautical root (blow me down), but I don't
really know. I do know that schoolchildren and old ladies say it all the
time.

George

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