[LMB] A VIRTUAL BOW-DOWN IN GLASSFORGE

[Elizabeth McCoy]

At 10:39 PM -0600 11/2/06, Lois McMaster Bujold wrote:
>[LMB] A VIRTUAL BOW-DOWN IN GLASSFORGE
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>It is pronounced bow to rhyme with know, not bow to rhyme with cow, by the by, 
>in case anyone was wondering.  It's a back-formation from hoe down, of course 
>(and the hyphen placement is anyone's guess.)

So a bow-down as in the fiddlers with their bows going up and going 
down and fiddlin' up a storm? O:> Or where you put down your bows and
arrows for a time? (For a pseudo formation, that is... *grin* )

>My real-life birthday had an erratic start, but ended very pleasantly.  

Yay!
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