mints pie? axe of God? religious tracks? Prints of Wales?

[James Smith]

How about the old joke, "Jose can you see, by the
dawn's early light."?...or the Sunday School favorite,
"Gladly, the cross-eyed bear."?  But these are
mondegreens, if I'm not Miss Staken.



--- Margaret Lee <mlee303 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> How about "... and to the republic for Richard Stans
> ..." ?  This was my husband's interpretation
> throughout elementary school.
>
> Roger Shuy <rshuy at MONTANA.COM> wrote:on 5/16/05 7:25
> AM, Sally O. Donlon at sod at LOUISIANA.EDU wrote:
>
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> > Poster: "Sally O. Donlon"
> > Subject: Re: mints pie? axe of God? religious
> tracks? Prints of Wales?
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> >
> > And I thought the phrase was ". . . Hollywood be
> thy name."
> >
> > sally donlon
> >
> And my childhood error was that the Apostle's Creed
> went "...and on the
> third day he roasted to death."
>
> roger
>
>
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James D. SMITH                 |If history teaches anything
South SLC, UT                  |it is that we will be sued
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