Social animals

[Mark Mandel]

When you swim in the sea
And an eel bites your knee
   That's a moray!

(Spider Robinson, in one of the "Callahan's Place" stories)

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On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> If you have trouble conforming to social morays [see earlier threads
> on "social moray" as eggcorn], you may find yourself treated as,
> well,...
>
> http://www.syl.com/articles/adoptioninschoolisactuallymorecommonthanyouwouldthink.html
> People who have been adopted or are in foster care should not be
> treated as a social leopard.
>
> http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080720182134AA7M7WP
> Yes make sure your child becomes a social leopard and a complete
> idiot, because you have some unsubstantiated fear that they will go
> to hell.
> [response to someone who is "appauled that that've taken our Lord
> Jesus out of schools!!?"]
>
> LH

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