But while they ape bygone dating rituals, these scripts are really all about preserving the anonymity of 'the casual', about not disturbing the tidy compartmentalisation that so many of the people I spoke with believe in.
Perhaps there is an argument that the kids of Fulton should just proceed with their private prom at this late date and let bygones be bygones.
This happens each night, almost without fail, and apparently dates back to some notorious bygone incident when a delegate showed up late and started blundering through the darkened aisles, screaming for his friend.
Current Hungarian guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of gonorrhoea date from 2002 and are based on bygone national and international data of gonococcal resistance.
"Let bygones be bygones," Buhrdorf recalls saying.
"Let bygones be bygones," Dreier joked.
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"Let bygones be bygones," he said.
"Mrs. Shaw," he speculates ironically, when his mother takes her two children to Wisconsin to meet her "friend" Richard, "probably wanted me to visit the man so I'd figure out how to find her when she ran away, so we could have a weepy reunion at some later date, when I was in my 30's, when she'd figured I'd let bygones be bygones".
Her stock is increasingly devoted to "mobilier industriel" —work tables, shelving units and safes rescued from closing factories (some items date from the '70s and '80s but already look like objects from a bygone era).
The Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf pointed out that "the Arab world … cannot bring itself to consider the Crusades a mere episode in the bygone past … there can be doubt that the schism between these two worlds dates from the Crusades.
