Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Fri Apr 24 18:20:11 UTC 2009


Our dear mailserver, of course, mangles that URL, breaking it after 74
characters and inserting an equal sign, which then gets read into the
hyperlink. You can use
   http://tinyurl.com/db8ncg
instead.

m a m

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> History and etymology aside, the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority and the
> local Chamber of Commerce have given the name semiofficial status:
>
> http://www.websterlakeassociation.com/images/Cropped%20Thompson%20Road%20si=
> gn_0008.jpg
>
> It isn't going away.
> JL

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