documentate!!

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Fri Apr 1 22:39:28 UTC 2005


On Apr 1, 2005, at 2:23 PM, Beverly Flanigan wrote:

> Alas, we sang it as kids in Minnesota too, early '50s.
>
> At 05:15 PM 4/1/2005, you wrote:
>> In a message dated Tue, 29 Mar 2005 03:51:53 -0800,
>> From:     Jonathan Lighter _wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM_
>> (mailto:wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM)   pontifices:
>>
>> This reminds me of the following pastiche, which I learned in the late
>> 1950's:
>>
>> We three kings of Orient are
>> Trying to light a rubber cigar...

and in eastern pennsylvania, late '40s.

arnold



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