Frogs in hot water

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Fri Aug 5 15:32:30 UTC 2011


At 8/5/2011 10:47 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
>Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
>Caveats: NONE
>
> >
> > The only un-decerebrated frog I'm familiar with is the Cerebrated
> > Jumping frog of Calaveras County.
> >
> >
>
>Shouldn't that be "Caraveras County"?

My l-r confusion is only intermittent.  And only oral -- I can copy
from Wikipedia without error.  :-)

JSB

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