"moonraker" and Wiltshire cheese, 1789

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun May 29 20:35:52 UTC 2011


On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> the _moon's shadow_

As Sheriff Mike Shaw was wont to say,

"Hold on there, partner!!"

Is this meant to imply that the title of that annoying song by Cat Stevens,

_Moon Shadow_

(unless it was

_Moon's Shadow_

of course)

wasn't mere noise that he'd simply pulled out of his ass?

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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.
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