"sleep gay"?

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:51 PM -0500 3/15/06, Wilson Gray wrote:
>What's up with that, Mark? Have you been taking lessons from Larry?
>That's a good shot, though, I admit. ;-)
>
>-Wilson

Excellent, I agree.  It was so elegant I couldn't come up with a topper.

L

>On 3/15/06, Mark A. Mandel <mamandel at ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:
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>>  Wilson Gray writ:
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>>  Doesn't anybody else remember "act / talk / live, etc. black and sleep
>>  white" from the 'Sixties? It looks like ordinary BE syntax to me: "(live
>>  straight and) sleep gay." I've just awakened from a nap, so I may be
>>  missing
>>  the point as a consequence of not being fully alert. If I am missing it,
>>  you
>>  know what to do.
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>>  Sleeping day, Wilson?
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>>  m a m
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