Re: Why do people still get married?

On Fri, 16 May 2008 17:13:06 -0700 (PDT), Snidely wrote:

>On May 13, 5:14 pm, Paul L. Madarasz <madpl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> >http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_172.html
>>
>> Damn!  Forgot to preface the URL with  OTB:IF.
>> They're not going to take away my Opus Points (TM), are they?
>
>They'll just give you mine, instead, since I've never compleatly
>figured this idiom out.  I begin by translating the 'O' as
>"obligatory", but then I switch in midstream[1] to "off track
>betting".

If it helps, I have no idea what it's about at all.  I really don't
grok the affection for abbreviations, and these ones are particularly
inscrutable.

-- 

Peter

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- Slidge