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apprentice - 07 Sep 2005 16:32 GMT

What is that? I read it in "The Talisman" by Stephen King.
Pawe³ from Warsaw, Poland

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Molly Mockford - 07 Sep 2005 17:33 GMT

At 17:32:14 on Wed, 7 Sep 2005, apprentice <mailpawel@wp.pl> wrote in
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>What is that? I read it in "The Talisman" by Stephen King.
>Pawe³ from Warsaw, Poland

It's the flap of loose skin on the neck (below the chin) of a bull, or
some unfortunate people.

The word was erroneously used in "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" in the
line "Bonnie loaded dollars into a dewlap bag", when the author later
admitted that the word he had meant to use was "burlap".

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CV - 07 Oct 2005 19:25 GMT

> At 17:32:14 on Wed, 7 Sep 2005, apprentice <mailpawel@wp.pl> wrote in
> <a5ddf$431f080d$d4ba586d$31496@news.chello.pl>:
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> line "Bonnie loaded dollars into a dewlap bag", when the author later
> admitted that the word he had meant to use was "burlap".

Not only a bull, surely. Cows have them as well.
CV

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mUs1Ka - 07 Oct 2005 19:30 GMT

>> At 17:32:14 on Wed, 7 Sep 2005, apprentice <mailpawel@wp.pl> wrote in
>> <a5ddf$431f080d$d4ba586d$31496@news.chello.pl>:
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>
> Not only a bull, surely. Cows have them as well.

Including my mother-in-law.

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