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To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (36710)	11/17/1998 3:17:00 AM
From: rupert1	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 97611

El: +++++++++OT+++++++ Never heard of James Stewart! And I thought you were an American! Jimmie Stewart, war hero, film star - he starred in a film/play called "Harvey" which was about a big invisible rabbit. The management is disappointed with the quantity and quality of responses for the search for "cobb on" in Liverpool slang. The search will be extended for one more day. One poster correctly referred to the Liverpool dialect as "scouse" a person from Liverpool being a "scouser". Does anyone know why? However that poster was wrong to equate "cobb" with "gob". A "gob" is a "mouth" and derives, as many scouse words do, from Irish slang. In this case it derives from the rude Irish expression "gob sh.te",(an American expletive spelled with a final "e" with the missing vowel pronouced long). "Gob sh.te" means verbal diarrhea (as sometimes found on the Dell thread or in Greenberg's pieces). Victor