When do we want to not have it?

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:35 PM -0400 6/2/10, Charles Doyle wrote:
>I'm passing this along from George Clay Bunch (ESOL professor at UC
>Santa Cruz--and my sister's kid).
>
>Charlie
>
>
>I heard the following on an audio clip on the radio, in a news story
>about a protest against building a biomass incinerator somewhere
>(can't remember where):
>
>Lead protestor rallying the group: "What do we want?"
>
>Group: "No incinerator!"
>
>Leader: "When do we want it?"
>
>Group: "Now!"
>
Hah.  I'd have thought "Ever!" in that last response would have been
more decisive, if not necessarily grammatical.

LH

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