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What is that? I read it in "The Talisman" by Stephen King. Pawe³ from Warsaw, Poland
  

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At 17:32:14 on Wed, 7 Sep 2005, apprentice (Email Removed) wrote in : [nq:1]What is that? I read it in "The Talisman" by Stephen King. Pawe³ from Warsaw, Poland[/nq] It's the flap of loose skin on the neck (below the chin) of a bull, or some unfortunate people.

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  • At 17:32:14 on Wed, 7 Sep 2005, apprentice (Email Removed) wrote in : [nq:1]What is that?
  • I read it in "The Talisman" by Stephen King.
  • Pawe³ from Warsaw, Poland[/nq] It's the flap of loose skin on the neck (below the chin) of a bull, or some unfortunate people.
  • The word was erroneously used in "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" in the line "Bonnie loaded dollars into a dewlap bag", when the author later admitted that the word he had meant to use was "burlap".
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At 17:32:14 on Wed, 7 Sep 2005, apprentice (Email Removed) wrote in :
[nq:1]What is that? I read it in "The Talisman" by Stephen King. Pawe³ from Warsaw, Poland[/nq]
It's the flap of loose skin on the neck (below the chin) of a bull, or some unfortunate people.
The word was erroneously used in "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" in the line "Bonnie loaded dollars into a dewlap bag", when
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[nq:2]What is that? I read it in "The Talisman" by Stephen King. Pawe³ from Warsaw, Poland[/nq]
[nq:1]It's the flap of loose skin on the neck (below the chin) of a bull, or some unfortunate people. The ... dollars into a dewlap bag", when the author later admitted that the word he had meant to use was "burlap".[/nq]
Not only a bull, surely. Cows have them as well.
CV
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[nq:1]Not only a bull, surely. Cows have them as well.[/nq]
Including my mother-in-law.

Ray.
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