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Old 09-11-2007, 10:41 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by morse1001 View Post
Going for a dump or dumping has a very different overtone to the one you suggest! In fact it is not used in polite society over here.

In the RAF we used to use the Q-code QAU....I am about to dump fuel, when we were going to the toilet!
Mine was more so the economic term - To inundate with something!

I could have said to "flood" the market however that would have started us off again!
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