Springfield [was: Joe Bidens Obama moment...]

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Feb 8 01:42:30 UTC 2007


At 4:52 PM -0500 2/7/07, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>At 2/7/2007 04:20 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>Very nice clip.  Surprised he didn't attempt to
>>imitate the accent of Apu Nahasapeemapetilon,
>>proprietor of the Springfield, DE Kwik-E-Mart.
>
>Aha! You've identified Springfield/s state as DElaware!  Please send
>your evidence to http://www.snpp.com/guides/springfield.list.html
>which seems to be unable to determine this.
>
>:-)
>Joel
>
Ah, but that's just Delaware's Springfield.  Every state has one, and
they all have Kwik-E-Marts (except maybe North Dakota).

LH

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