Back to you and I (UNCLASSIFIED)

Fri Feb 19 23:14:48 UTC 2010

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Lamppost, gatepost, fencepost -- I've heard them all.

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> Actually, yes! The first of *many*:
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>   Reynolds, 53, placed sandbags around the 4-foot-high oak, but water
> seeped in. He used towels to sop up the excess, but that also failed.
> "Between you and I and the lamppost, I don't think it's going to make
> it," he said.
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> VS-)
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> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Does anybody say, "Between you and *I* and the lamppost?"
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> > FWIW, my grandparents, with high-school diplomas from ca1905, said
> "between
> > you and me."
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> > JL
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