"cumberbund"

[Randy Alexander]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OfaYHD-uH0
That should be better.

Randy

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Marc Velasco <marcjvelasco at gmail.com>wrote:

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> can you repost the link?  I get this error:
> The URL contained a malformed video ID.
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> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Randy Alexander
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> > At 2:17:
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OfaYHD-uH0You can click "more info" in
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> > Can we make the courthouse lawn event in late December or early January?
> >  That's something I really wouldn't want to miss.
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> > : P
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> > Randy
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> > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:30 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > arnold, if you can find a random black person or a random Southerner
> > > of any race who doesn't say "cumberbund," I'll kiss your ass on the
> > > courthouse lawn and give you 45 minutes to draw a crowd. "Matlock" is
> > > set in the South, right? And Andy Griffith is from the South, right?
> > >
> > > You remind me of that GI from Darien, CT, who was stunned to hear a
> > > Southerner say, "Git _you_ a tray!"
> > >
> > > -Wilson
> > >
> > > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
> > > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > > -----
> > > -Mark Twain
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> > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
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> > > > caught this (spoken) in an episode of Matlock.
> > > >
> > > > not in OED, NOAD2, or AHD4 as a variant of "cummerbund".  is in
> > > > Merriam-Webster Online as a variant (without further comment).  the
> > > > two spellings are listed as variants (with "cumberbund" first) in Q&A
> > > > Times.
> > > >
> > > > but the Wiktionary just labels "cumberbund" as a misspelling of
> > > > "cummerbund".  Brians doesn't mention it.
> > > >
> > > > plenty of sites treat "cumberbund" as the spelling.
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> > > > arnold
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