Team names (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Shapiro, Fred]

Check out Wallace Stevens' poem, "Anecdote of the Jar."

Fred Shapiro



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Charles C Doyle
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 6:43 AM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> In reference to the Baltimore Ravens--named for Poe's poem--Dennis
> Baron posted these possible "literary" names on his Facebook page:
> "St. Louis Prufrocks? The Camden Leaves? Patterson Wheelbarrows?
> Tennessee Jars? The Amherst Slants of Light?"
>

Can someone explain the Tennessee reference?  I don't get it . . .

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