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38. I think calling them "coffin nails" goes back over a century. I seem to have read an old cowboy book

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Thu Nov 4, 2021, 01:13 PM

Nov 2021

… where they were called that. (Of course the author could have been using a term from the 1930s - 1940s when he was writing.) They were associated with coughin’ hence a kind of pun.

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