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Posted By: Nigel Parsons
08-Aug-13 - 07:04 AM
Thread Name: Mantle or maidenhead; what does it mean?
Subject: RE: Mantle or maidenhead; what does it mean?

I've never seen the text, but I always imagined that it was 'coal-blacksmith'.
Or, even, coal-black smith.

With regards to mantle & maidenhead, as Freud said "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar", or was that Bill Clinton?