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f8**********@TEKSAVVY.COM>, Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:49:50, Chris F.A.
Johnson <cf********@gmail.composted:
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The term 'shebang' may or may not be derived from the bang in
bang paths.
The word is most unlikely to have been derived from something that only
came into existence about a century after Mark Twain used the word : see
<http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/the-whole-shebang.html>.
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