He says "overpass", I say ...

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Jul 12 17:07:00 UTC 2010


At 12:54 PM -0400 7/12/10, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>At 7/12/2010 12:12 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>>"Viaduct"?
>
>Surely not -- a viaduct, like an overpass, is elevated.
>
Thereby suggesting an answer to Groucho's question:
"Why a duck?"
"Elevation!"

LH

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