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

[Wilson Gray]

Well, Charlie, I admit that "Tobedwego" does make a heck of a lot more
sense than "Abindago"! :-)

-Wilson

On 8/6/07, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> Wilson, do you mean to inform me--after all these years--that it wasn't Shadrach, Meshach, and Tobedwego??
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> --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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