A children's punning/rhyming game

[Wilson Gray]

On Jul 23, 2004, at 11:04 PM, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:

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> We discussed this a while back. Here's one message, although of
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> dubious provenance:
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> (Hope the link works.)
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> -- Doug Wilson
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Yes, the link does work, still. It's amazing - or maybe it's not, to a
specialist - that these things are so old. Unfortunately, I can't cite
my source. In fact, strangely enough for me, I can't even remember what
library I was in when I ran across the printed version that I used in
my post. It was a serendipity moment. I was researching some other
topic and accidentally ran across "What's your name?" I saw that the
second line - the only line of interest - was given as "Putting and
ta'en," made a mental note only of that, and moved on.

-Wilson Gray