Out of context

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:33 AM -0500 3/19/05, Mark A. Mandel wrote:
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>This morning the placard at the hotel's breakfast area reads (lowercase
>reproduced intact):
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>today's weather:
>sunny
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>today's breakfast special:
>top of the morning
>farm fresh eggs, savory country sausage & fluffy biscuits
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>breakfast host:
>jesus

Talk about your heavenly host!  If it really was Jesus, the Original,
you could have checked out whether He'd be willing to turn your
tomato juice into a bloody Mary.

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>In this context it takes me a few moments to re-parse that last line in my
>mind's ear: hay-SOOS, not JEE-zus. That staffer with the Spanish accent I
>told about the broken toaster. Yup, it's not *that* strange a place.
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>mark by hand