OT: small biggies

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Fri Jul 9 15:00:08 UTC 2010


At 7/9/2010 10:43 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>... But even
>then, "smalls" runs into too many last names, from "Biggie Smalls" on
>down.

Or is that "from on up" to "Small Biggies"?

>"bigs" does seem much more robust than "smalls", though.

Not surprising for the NBA.  On the other hand, for jockeys ...

Joel

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