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Thread #148910 Message #3461889
Posted By: MGM·Lion
05-Jan-13 - 05:16 PM
Thread Name: Wrap Me Up In My Tarpaulin Jacket
Subject: RE: Wrap Me Up In My Tarpaulin Jacket
Dictionaries seem to agree that a 'buffer' is a silly or bumbling old man [the word is generally preceded by 'old']. To me it always carries an overtone of one who is constantly nostalgically praising the old ways at the expense of the new, as old buffers like me are prone to do.
I mean, dash it all!, fancy all you young people not knowing that, what what! Don't know what education is coming to. Now when I was...