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To "smoke" something used to mean in the Napoleonic period to be able to determine its true meaning. At least that's how Patrick O'Brian used the term in his Capt. Aubrey series.

You could also "smoke" a ground hog out of its den, if you lived down in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Then there'd be the question of how much "ground round a hound dog could hog if a groundhog was ground round."

Obama will make a fine vice president for Edwards.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble