Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance - Question about old time radio

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Garson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
> Charlie: It's made from _cereal_, the silly- belly, and the muddled alligator.
> Edgar: No, no, that's the _cerebrum_, cerebellum, and the medulla
> oblongata!

"cerebrum" > "cereal"

Evidence that this dates from the time when _cerebrum_ still bore
stress on its initial syllable?

BTW, used to go to school with an Arab dude name of "Medulla
Oblongata." Was a real brain.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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