"Goldilocks zone" -- not in OED

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Tue Nov 5 21:17:51 UTC 2013


CNN speaks of "Goldilocks planets."

 JL


On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:51 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

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> JB: <<Apologies to Alexander Pope, Voltaire, and Robert Browning.>>
> WB:  Not to mention the Three Bears, which of course nobody does.
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