gay = bright, lively, cheerful

[Mark Mandel]

Ah, well then, the reply I just sent about "lavender" missed your intended
point entirely. So it goes.

(But your intended point sits better with me than what I thought you were
saying, which bordered on the obvious.)

m a m

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:35 PM, <RonButters at aol.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure what happened here. This was SUPPOSED to read (as per the
> ad=20
> itself):
>
> "... *Produces Gay Masses of Blue-Violet Flowering Spires ..."
>
> The ad goes on with a quite conventional list of virtues of hardy
> lavender:
>
> "*Blooms Year After Year From June to Fall"
> "Enchanting 'Old English Fragrance"=20
>
> etc.
>
>

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