money-machine

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Mar 4 21:21:11 UTC 2008


Interesting! How's it derived?

-Wilson

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 3:03 PM, William Salmon <william.salmon at yale.edu> wrote:
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>  I say 'pulse machine':
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>  I have to stop at the pulse machine.
>  I have to go pulse.
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