" Olive, the other reindeer"; was Re: "Trolling" for "Trawling": An Eggcorn?

[Michael H Covarrubias]

Quoting Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>:
>
>
> Well, there's that line from the Messiah in which the singer admits
> "For we like sheep"
>
> --pretty suspicious, I always thought.
>
> LH
>

"All we like sheep..." KJV -- which isn't quite as funny as the New American
Standard Version: "All of us like sheep..."

michael

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