> My Grandfather DeBoe -- a real character -- used to joke that he once paid a man to research the DeBoe family tree.
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> After reading the initial report, he offered to pay the man double to *stop*.
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> Iss "at least, I *think* it was a joke" achar

Heh. I was reading Howard Richler's "Speaking of Language" column where he mentioned, in passing, that the original meaning of a "boor" was "dweller, husbandman, rustic," in the way it derived from the Dutch word for farmer, "boer". So BOER means "neighbour," or more precisely "nearby farmer." Interesting to know, don't you think?

Wolf "Glad to have Iss as a friendly Internet boor-- No, neighbour. Internet NEIGHBOUR. I mean it. Augh!" spirit