"Awesome Blossom"

[Wilson Gray]

Exactly so. "More rock, less tock"? It feels somewhat itless.

-Wilson

On 8/2/07, Alice Faber <faber at haskins.yale.edu> wrote:
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> Joel S. Berson wrote:
> > At 8/2/2007 07:38 PM, Alice Faber wrote:
> >> I had a similar reaction when I first encountered the "Awesome Blossom"
> >>  fried onion appetizer at one of those interchangeable chain
> >> restaurants (Ruby Tuesday?).
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> > Did "they" do "Ahsum Blahsum" or "Awsum Blawsum"?  (I couldn't and
> > wouldn't do either! says a New Yorker by youth.)
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> Well, that's clearly the intent. But it doesn't work well for those of
> us who have different vowels in the two words.
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