a burning question
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sun Aug 8 13:30:25 UTC 2010
At 5:44 AM -0400 8/8/10, Victor Steinbok wrote:
> When did the "air-guitar" become an "air-balalaika" (and the rest of
>the air-X snowclonelets)?
>
>http://bit.ly/aHKo7v ;-)
>
> VS-)
>
I think it was the first time the words one sang while playing the
non-existent stringed instrument were mentally written in Cyrillic
letters.
LH
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