A trivial parallel

[Jonathan Lighter]

That's why Riley's face is on a U.S. stamp and Edgar Guest's isn't.

JL

Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote: ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------
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Is the "mouth" of a shoe at the loose end of its tongue?? I find the metaphor dizzying.

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 04:54:29 -0700
>From: Jonathan Lighter
>Subject: Re: A trivial parallel
>
>By today's standards, "shoe-mouth deep" ain't that deep woe-wise.
>
>Get a life, Jim!
>
>JL
>
>Wilson Gray  wrote: ----------------------
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>James Whitcomb Riley
>Afterwhiles
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>The idy! Wadin round here over shoe-mouth deep in woe,
>When they's a graded 'pike o' joy and sunshine _don't you know!_
>
>
>-Wilson

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