"situation" /sales event

Sat Dec 16 16:17:30 UTC 2006

Perhaps I should have said, "disappointing."

  JL

Jim Parish <jparish at SIUE.EDU> wrote:
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Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> An "occurrence," however, is usually pretty blah.

Unless it's at Owl Creek Bridge.

Jim Parish

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