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To: maceng2 who wrote (55305)	10/28/2002 9:07:34 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi Pearly_Button; Re: "Also I may not know exactly what "Let's roll!" means. Is it "Let's roll a dice!" or "Let's go!"" The US is a car culture. "Let's roll" means to begin movement, as of a vehicle. Frankly, in the past 12 months, the concept of "let's roll" as being applied to a game of chance with dice never came to mind. On the other hand, I hadn't thought of "regime change" as implying other than that Saddam would be removed from power. Other US car culture phrases that come to mind are: "Where the rubber meets the road" (the place where the important mechanical things happen, usually in terms of an analysis). "Go into the weeds" (to fail to steer a vehicle, so that it runs off the side of the road [to where weeds grow], used as an engineering phrase for something that ran off out of control). "Back seat driver" (someone who insists on giving unwanted and or unneeded instructions from a seat in an automobile other than the driver's seat). -- Carl