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Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Apr 23 20:15:07 UTC 2009
>Actually the article says that's not correct.
>
>"One debunked myth suggested the actual words were "You fish on your
>side, I fish on my side, and nobody fish in the middle." It is
>believed the latter was a hoax believed to have been concocted by
>the late Larry Daly, the editor of The Webster Times."
>
>Who new?
Who new indeed. It did always seem too good to be true.
LH
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