plugs and opposites

[victor steinbok]

Clearly, not a zero-sum game...

VS-)

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
>
> In my part of east Texas, so standard was the practice of thumping a melon to test its ripeness that we children had a game of thumping the heads of unsuspecting peers and exclaiming "Watermellon!"  Some IQ points were no doubt lost in the process of that merriment.
>
> --Charlie

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