More stones to un-turn

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:30 AM -0500 8/6/07, Scot LaFaive wrote:
>So if there are stones yet to "un-turn," who was the one who had originally
>turned them? And why didn't they get the secrets out while they had the
>stones up? Very existential, which I'm sure was the speaker's goal when
>saying it.
>
>Scot

Since I don't seem to be able to open the .wmv
link, can you fill me (and others in the same
fix) on the neighboring context? .

The handful of google hits on "stones to
un(-)turn" all seem to be using "unturn"
redundantly, so the resultant force is identical
to that of "stones to turn (over)".  Is that
basically what Brockman is doing?  Or does
"un-turn" here mean something more like 'cover
up', or something else?  (If we can
tell--sometimes with Kent Brockman it isn't easy.)

LH

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>>The Simpsons, ever a source of linugistic oddities, prompt this newsperson
>>to state that there are "more stones to un-turn in the areas of astronomy,
>>robots, and physics" at approximately 3:20 in this interview.
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>>http://www.usip.edu:80/smc/media/cn8_simpsons_070801.wmv
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>>It is a very Kent Brockman-esque statement.
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>>Bill Le May
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