pie alamo

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Sun Mar 1 01:37:05 UTC 2009


No matter what encoding I use, I don't see the Greek letter pi, just
    <lowercase i><capital O with tilde>

Mark Mandel



On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's proof: Â http://www.lighterspc.com/talk717.html.
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> Herb
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> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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>> Poster: Â  Â  Â  Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>> Subject: Â  Â  Â Re: pie alamo
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>> At 12:42 AM -0500 2/28/09, Herb Stahlke wrote:
>>>This evening Jay Leno showed a restaurant menu that listed "Pie
>>>Alamo." Â I don't know if the menu was from Texas, where Pie Alamo is a
>>>fairly common pun,
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>> Does it involve a piece of pie with a scoop of beans on top and a bit of salsa?
>>
>> LH
>>
>>> Â like Pie a la Moe for Three Stooges fans. Â But
>>>Google lists a few sites where Texas and puns don't appear to be an
>>>explanation. Â Possible eggcorn?
>>>
>>>Herb
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