A line for the ages...

[Alice Faber]

Lynne Murphy wrote:
>--On Monday, July 9, 2001 1:08 pm +0800 Laurence Horn
><laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
>
>> "It's a cheap hobby, and it keeps me from falling into the company of
>> frolicsome     women."
>>     --George A. Thompson Jr., NYU librarian, on why he spends hours a
>> week looking at     microfilm of 19th century newspapers for ancient
>> references to predecessors of      baseball
>
>That seems to imply that he's not in the company of frolicsome women here
>on ADS-L...

Hmmm...Indeed. We'll have to do something about that.
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