comet scenario (was: "No pork on my fork")

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Jun 23 15:27:41 UTC 2005


>Larry Horn responding to Beverly:
>>>>
>>Pay-ru (IN), Chi-lee (IN), Lie-ma (OH), Rye-o Grand (OH), . . .  Didn't we
>>cover these a few years ago?
>
>We did indeed, and probably a few years before that.  It's your basic
>comet scenario.
><<<
>
>Howzat? You mean as in "Bill Haley & the Comets"? It doesn't look much the
>same situation to me.
>
No, no rocking around the clock involved.  I just meant it comes
around every few years, like other threads (e.g. the "Yeah, yeah"
one, for example) and e-mail "discoveries" (e.g. the
etymologies-from-the-Middle-Ages one about how "raining cats and
dogs" comes from the cats and dogs that everyone used to keep on
their thatched roofs and so on), and like comets.

L



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