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The Letters of A.R.D. Fairburn choose

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[NZ] A.R.D. Fairburn letter in Edmond Letters (1981) 21 July 5: Either you become one of these, or you must turn yourself into a blasted bible-banging Baptist. [Ibid.] 11: Even the bible-banger is preferable to the human fungi they stand for.
at bible-banger (n.) under bible, n.
[NZ] A.R.D. Fairburn letter in Edmond Letters (1981) 21 July 5: Talking of the British Empire [...] and the Bulldog breed (I like the Bullshit breed as a more fitting title).
at bullshit, adj.
[NZ] A.R.D. Fairburn letter in Edmond Letters (1981) 21 July 5: Pretending that soldiers are heroes, instead of brainless larrikins.
at larrikin, n.
[NZ] A.R.D. Fairburn letter Edmond Letters (1981) Sept.–Oct. 26: I [...] have been going like hell with rehearsals and dentists and one thing and another.
at go like hell (v.) under hell, n.
[NZ] A.R.D. Fairburn letter 24 Jan. in Edmond Letters (1981) 18: I have a water colour here [...] It’s a bit rafferty though, and I may wait and do a decent one.
at Rafferty’s rules, n.
[NZ] A.R.D. Fairburn letter in Edmond Letters (1981) 1 Feb. 31: Sounds meaty, don’t it?
at meaty, adj.
[NZ] D. Trussell Fairburn 52: I see by our local sausage-wrapper that you broke with the old life at mid-day on Saturday.
at sausage wrapper (n.) under sausage, n.
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