Birth of a nova--not?

[Chris Waigl]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:17:09 -0500, Benjamin Zimmer typed:

> Here's a pertinent example from Robin Pemantle:
>
>   Ollie!
>
>   Higgelgate, Piggelgate,
>     Oliver, Oliver
>     cleaned out his files to
>     clean up his act
>   letting him substitute
>     somewhat revisionist
>     verisimilitude
>     after the fact.               -RP (1987)
>
> http://www.math.upenn.edu/~pemantle/Higgeldy.html

Is this a thread tie? Did I miss something?

Higgeldy Piggeldy
  Philip of Macedon
  cursed Alexander, his
  famous papoose,
"Why should I try to be
  philoprogenitive?
  everyone thinks that his
  father was Zeus!"              (Keith Peterson, 19??)
<http://www.math.upenn.edu/~pemantle/higgeldy/alexander>

Chris Waigl

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