auto/Otto

[Charles Doyle]

Just this minute I finished reading an undergraduate's final exam paper in which this sentence appears:  "The Duke leaves to dawn the cloak of a friar."  A carpetbagger in Georgia, obviously.

--Charlie
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>Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:51:10 -0600
>From: Matthew Gordon <gordonmj at MISSOURI.EDU>
>Subject: Re: auto/Otto
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>There was a similar cot/caught-motivated pun on _Buffy The Vampire Slayer_ years ago in which one of the characters named Dawn was teasingly called "Dawn Corleone".

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