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Originally Posted by golfer
Steve, did you use the word "torpid" as an adjective or a noun?
because as a noun, you would have just called Sumwon an "an eight-oared, clinker-built boat used for races at Oxford University during the Lenten term".  |
Well, though I did row heavyweight 8's at Colgate, I was suggesting torpid as in sluggish.
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