Query: "$64,000 quesiton"

[Wilson Gray]

Once again, dern! Both Bruce and Laura.

-Wilson

On 5/10/07, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 10:07 AM -0400 5/10/07, David Bowie wrote:
> >From:    Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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> ><snip>
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> >>...Looking back at this practice with the accumulated wisdom of
> >>some seventy dekkids, I'm amazed that no epidemics of cholera or some
> >>such ever swept the city...
> >
> >Seventy decades? I think Wilson has earned the title of oldest coot
> >amongst us. :-)
> >
> Indeed; not quite as old as either Methuselah or the hills, but he's
> within 2.7 or so dekkids of the former...
>
> L
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