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June 10th, 2010 by admin

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  1. Steve Dunham:

    June 14th, 2010 at 11:31 am

    That sounds like “take a powder” might have meant “take a trip to the powder room” and “take a run-out powder” might have meant to take an especially hasty trip to the powder room. Gotta go!

  2. KarenK:

    June 16th, 2010 at 10:33 pm

    Wisconsin is bordered by two Great Lakes; I’m sure they could get a sailing ship in there somehow.

  3. Dora MacPherson:

    August 27th, 2012 at 1:14 pm

    I remember watching the old gangster movies with Lisbeth Scott. She would us the Phrase “he took a powder” with a straight face.

    I thought it meant that he was shot and killed.
    My logic was that some guns left a powder residue on the body.
    I was sure on the wrong track.
    So today I was thinking about it so I thought I would look it up.
    The powder room one is funnier yet.

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