lay me down WAS Re: " Olive, the other reindeer"

[Charles Doyle]

Wilson, do you mean to inform me--after all these years--that it wasn't Shadrach, Meshach, and Tobedwego??

--Charlie
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>Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 21:53:37 -0400
>From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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>When I first heard this, I didn't have sufficient command of speech to have developed any expectations about it. That [nauwaileimi] should be as meaningless as Shadrach, Meshach, or Abindago (as I, as a child, heard the last) to a child of toddler's age or younger is not something that I find difficult to understand.
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>-Wilson

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