animal "produce" (some Google results)?

[Ann Burlingham]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

> i'm sorry.  i should have used CATEGORY 255, CATEGORY 573, CATEGORY
> 722, etc., giving a brief description (as i did before) of the
> membership of each denoted category.  i'll bear this in mind in the
> future, and use entirely arbitrary labels for categories, instead of
> helpfully mnemonic ones,  my bad.

Is that a reference to the joke about the joke club, where they'd
numbered all the jokes?


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