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Old 05-18-2003, 10:08 PM
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Posted By: julie

Alleghenys are hand cut--I see no purpose in calling a cut-off, even messily--card "hand cut" when it is "trimmed." "sloppily trimmed" is also an alternative. And then to claim that you have told someone that a card is "trimmed" when what you have told him is that it's "hand cut" is--sort of dishonest.

In other words, since hand cut has other than bad connotations, it seems unwise and not honest to use it as as substitute for trimmed.

I long ago decided that BCD was too smart for me to keep up with...

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