Where were you when the sewers exploded?

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:38 PM -0400 6/25/09, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:34 PM, James A. Landau wrote:
>>
>>  It is possible that "hiking the Appalachian Trail" was a
>>deliberate invention
>>  on the part of some staffer to claim that the Governor was still
>>in the State
>>  and therefore still acting as Governor, even though he was incommunicado.
>
>Except that the Appalachian Trail doesn't run through South Carolina.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Trail
>
And when the poor guy realized that, he figured he may as well fly to
Argentina.  (I suppose there must be some citings/sightings of "Don't
cry for me Argentina" in the write-ups.)

LH

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