bacabre

Herb Stahlke hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM
Mon Sep 14 00:20:22 UTC 2009


And Mom responds, "Odly if you blow your dose first."  But then Bob
would be baking buffids.

Herb

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Randy Alexander
<strangeguitars at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at nb.net> wrote:
>>>> From a student at San Francisco State in 2007:
>>>>
>>>> Â "i have also heard the actual wax recording whcih sounds so bacabre, but in
>>>> fact is an amazing experience"
>>>>
>>>> http://vote.sparklit.com/comments.spark?contentID=1047430&pollID=1000416
>>>>
>>>> She's talking about Tennyson's top-forty recording in 1892 of "The Charge of
>>>> the Light Brigade."
>>>>
>>>> It doesn't strike me as particularly bacabre.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Where do you think the <b> is coming from?
>> --
>>
>> Â From "bizarre" maybe.
>
> This is more what I was looking for, unless as per Wilson's language
> change perspective, the speaker would say "hey bom, could you bake be
> some buffins?"
>
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