OT: another -gate

[Mark Mandel]

Well, that was cryptic... not.

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On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> At 8/8/2010 09:02 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >[Berson at att.net had written]
> >>Jorl
> >That was certainly a nice, well-behaved -gate, what with their
> >attempts at denial, misreporting, and all.  Not the ring of
> >"Pearly-gate" or "Underwater-gate", but a good -gate nonetheless.
> >
> >LH (noting that Jorl must have been covering up that /r/ all these years)
>
> I've repeatedly claimed that I'm rhotic.  What I have been covering
> up is that I'm from Krypton.  And I've altered my name slightly to
> disguise my relationship to my better-known son.  (In the message
> Larry referred to I simply forgot which letter I customarily suppressed.)
>
> Joel
>
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