"Ice cream" from 1735?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Charlie, I generally *drive* to the library.  I find I can convey more books inside the car than on the back of my quadruped.

  But you do present a quaint and interesting picture of the pre-automotive scholar.

  JL

Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
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One hauls one's ass to that old edifice the library, then sneezes one's way through brittle pages of mildewy print . . . .

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 22:02:23 -0500
>From: "Joel S. Berson"
>Subject: "Ice cream" from 1735?
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>
>How does one determine what issue the Google Books hit is from?
>
>Joel

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