Downsizing the N-pound gorilla

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sun Apr 17 23:58:16 UTC 2011


But I'd still rather have Wilson in the room than the other.

JL

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com>
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> > some of us on this list may outweigh a 200 lb gorilla
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> One such as your humble correspondent, for instance. ;-)
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