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Who (what?) is (a) Sassafras?

They tried to assimilate me. They failed.
by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 12:47:41 PM EST
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Reminds me: Who (what?) is (a) Twank?

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 12:56:21 PM EST
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MAN!  Ask a reasonable question around this place and see what happens! :)

Time to go for my walk.  Later y'all.

They tried to assimilate me. They failed.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 01:00:08 PM EST
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No, really. English is not my first language (nr for many others on this site). I have no clue what your nick denotes.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 01:31:58 PM EST
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Nickname (bastardized last name) from my college years, early '70's.

My brother and I went to the same local private college, he was three years ahead of me.  He was known as Twank, I became the Baby Twank, younger. My brother graduated, I became Twank but I have taken TWANKING to a whole new level, thus THE Twank (accept no substitutes).

They tried to assimilate me. They failed.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 02:16:09 PM EST
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Sassafras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sassafras is a genus of three[1][2] species of deciduous trees in the family Lauraceae, native to eastern North America and eastern Asia.[2]
by Fran on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 12:57:14 PM EST
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Originally, it was the main ingredient in root beer. At some point the medical community discovered that if you could drink several hundred gallons of sassafras extract in two minutes you had better odds at getting some obscure disease. So sassafras content was reduced or cancelled from some root beers. However, sugar content in root beer has gone up over the decades with no apparent outcry, myself excepted.
by de Gondi (publiobestia aaaatttthotmaildaughtusual) on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 05:19:13 PM EST
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