Query: "$64,000 question"----(blend)

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

Btw, this was, of course a blend: "seventy years" + "seven dekkids."
 
Gerald Cohen

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At 10:07 AM -0400 5/10/07, David Bowie wrote:
>From:    Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
>
><snip>
>
>>...Looking back at this practice with the accumulated wisdom of
>>some seventy dekkids, I'm amazed that no epidemics of cholera or some
>>such ever swept the city...
>
>Seventy decades? I think Wilson has earned the title of oldest coot
>amongst us. :-)
>
Indeed; not quite as old as either Methuselah or the hills, but he's
within 2.7 or so dekkids of the former...

L

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