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In article <nospam-DDE01F.13043615102013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>In article <c2b71bcf-a5af-4896-858b-3a31c6748b7e at googlegroups.com>,
> AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Alright. I am in the US. I'm not familiar with the word _clot_ except 
>> in terms of blood-related phenomena. Even so, _clot_ and _cloud_ are 
>> not similar enough in spelling or sound for me to think it was a pun. 
>> (Maybe in England they're pronounced the same.) So I thought it was 
>> most likely a typo and therefore didn't want to waste my time on a 
>> wild goose chase. Regardless, instead of explaining it, MG got nasty. 
>
>Would "clod" work for you?
>
>clod
>noun
>1 a lump of earth or clay.
>2 informal a stupid person (often used as a general term of abuse).
>
>ORIGIN late Middle English: variant of clot.
>
>source: Oxford Englsh Dictionary (U.S. version), as available in
>Dictionary.app on OS X.

What about berk, cabbage(head), duffer, git, pillock, plonker, or prat
instead as none of them could be confused with cloud unless the reader
is one of the aforementioned?

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