sharing

[Jonathan Lighter]

That means "Thanks for sitting still and listening to my dreams."

Kids: "sharing" is a two-way street.

Not that anybody would have written a sentence like that back when things
made sense.

JL

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Randy Alexander <strangeguitars at gmail.com>wrote:

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> I picked up a children's book in a friend's house: "I'm a Little
> Teapot", by Iza Trapani.
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> Second last stanza begins:
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> I'm a little teapot, golly gee!
> Thank you for sharing my dreams with me.
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> WTF?
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