[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Easter Bunny"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Apr 5 21:30:12 UTC 2015


On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Bonnie Taylor-Blake <b.taylorblake at gmail.com
> wrote:

> a couple different historical databases
>

The "a couple _of_ ..." of my lost youth has died out, apparently. I've
considered using the similarly-antiquated, jocular "a couple of three
[whatevers]," but that probably wouldn't be interpretable, anymore.




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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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