Inquiring minds want to know...

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Fri Aug 3 12:46:35 UTC 2012


Try "screw" or the equivalent.

See, strictly speaking vegetables don't have...so you can't...but it's
metaphorical.

Also, do "spherical" vegetables really work best?

JL

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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> > Amy Poehler's associate on "Parks and Recreation"
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> Now, *that's* something that I *didn't* know.
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> On the Daily Show, she mentioned that, because her father is black,
> she had once considered _Jones_ to be some kind of slave name. But,
> she has now found out that it is, in fact, a Welsh name.
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> Yes, that's right. It is a Welsh name.
>
> Wait, what?
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