Take me now, Lord!

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Feb 8 03:17:03 UTC 2006


At 9:44 PM -0500 2/7/06, Wilson Gray wrote:
>"'Love Monkey' will cast you in its spell!"
>
>Voice-over accompanying an ad for a TV show.
>
>-Wilson Gray
>
Lovely.  I tried googling the phrase, elegant as it is, and found
exactly two hits, one from a comic review and the other from a movie
review of "The Human Stain" at a site called...The Dental Arts of
Plano ("State of the Art with a Heart"):

This movie will cast you in its spell and surprise you with its secrets.
http://www.aggiedoc.com/view_review.php?viewID=40


I guess we're in what some would consider SOTA territory here...

LH

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