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Sir Gregory Hall, Esq. wrote:

I pity you land lubbers. Yes, YOU! I don't know
anybody posting to Usenet who isn't a dullard
landlubber. Capt. Skippy of the "Flying Pig" has
even turned into a land lubber as I predicted a
couple years ago.

Greg, if I could just interrupt for a moment... the absence of the
preposition /of/ in your sentence above: ie.. "as I predicted a couple
years ago" disturbs my comprehension of the English language - to my
mind it is regional laziness...'coarse, I might be wrong about this, but
what is your take on this common Americanism?...tia...

If you wish to make a contraction of "of course," "'course" would be
more appropriate than "'coarse," but...

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