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

[Peter A. McGraw]

Mine was, "...and to the republic, for witched stands..."  (Just one of
those many rituals that made no sense to me because, I figured, they were
in "grownup talk," which I would understand in due time.)

Peter Mc.

--On Thursday, May 19, 2005 5:08 AM -0700 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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>> And I thought the phrase was ". . . Hollywood be thy name."
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>> sally donlon
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> 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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Peter A. McGraw       Linfield College        McMinnville, Oregon
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