derivations

[Joel S. Berson]

ME: But beef comes from beeves, and pork from porkers.

At 8/20/2005 01:25 PM, you wrote:
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>Hilary Price's cartoon Rhymes with Orange, 8/20/05. "The Origin of
>Species":
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>CAT: Beef comes from cows, pork comes from pigs, but chicken comes
>from... chickens.  Isn't that strange?
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>DOG: Not really, considering duck comes from duck and roe comes from
>rodents.
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>CAT: Roe comes from fish.
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>Dog: Yeah, sure--and ham's not from hamsters.