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    Nov 29, 2007, 03:59 AM
    In the wild west, why did they always spit?
    Well the question is in the subject, so why did they?
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    Nov 29, 2007, 04:01 AM
    My guess is that they were chewing tobacco and thus needed to spit rather than swallowing the poisonous stuff. But, maybe some others have their own ideas.
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