prior = "before"

[Charles Doyle]

Here's another head-scratcher:

Yesterday I watched the fine motion picture _The Scorpion King_ (2002), a saga of multiethnic barbarians in the remote past (at least one group referes to itself solemnly as "the hoard"), somewhere in the Middle East. Near the beginning the protagonist (played by that gifted thespian The Rock), pledges--jointly with two confederates--the destruction of an adversary: "As long as one of us lives, he will die."

--Charlie
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>Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 20:46:41 -0400
>From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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>
>He had me at "fail to field a batter".
>
>LH

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