"We ARE x !"

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Even with the stress on "ARE"?

T'm not sure when I first heard the actual chant. Probably not till
the '50's, when I became seriously interested in football on the tube,
even to the point of becoming a fan of Sam Etcheverry and the Montreal
Alouettes, without any idea of where in Canada that city was. (I
thought that Quebec was the only city of note in Quebec. So, Montry
Aul - not to be confused with Mountreal, i.e, Mount Real, Que.,
needless to say - must have been somewhere else in the Great White
North.) That was around the time that Lenny Moore was the HNOD at Penn
State.

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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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