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Old 19-March-2008, 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by BigDon View Post
This Funny Noise sounded like you would imagine a weiner dog in a cement mixer to sound like. As we had neither weiner dogs nor cement mixers in our shop our collective curiosities were peaked. (Gillian, is that the right one?)
“piqued” is the one you where looking for. From the French word “pique” meaning “prick,” in the sense of “stimulate.”
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