Enid's 'cinema screen' technique

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Robert Houghton wrote:
Nadia wrote:=3 :!:
I might be daft, but I just don't understand these needless one digit or one word answers. :?
Can't help but agree with you, Robert! Pehaps Nadia can explain....? :?
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I can only think of it as a person with a moustache or a rather worried face - something like ":S" (MSN smilie code for :? ).

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I took it to mean "That makes three of us" (i.e. Nadia agrees with Robert and Nigel.) Took me a while to come to that conclusion though!

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Anita Bensoussane wrote:I took it to mean "That makes three of us" (i.e. Nadia agrees with Robert and Nigel.) Took me a while to come to that conclusion though!

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that's just my point - I took it to mean the opposite!! :?
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