[ExI] smoke 'em dano

[Anton Sherwood]

On 2020-9-18 13:50, spike jones via extropy-chat wrote:
> Dan you are a writer from Australia.  A friend of mine and countryman
> of yours (Damien Broderick) took my suggestion: insert some arcane
> Americanisms attributable to one of his characters from the states.
> He put "Book em, Dan-o" in one of his short stories.  It worked.

I once wrote to Charlie Stross, concerning a story set in Massachusetts, 
"Am I in the first hundred to tell you that 'ex-directory' is spelled 
'unlisted' on this side?"  "You're the first."

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