"ban" = "requirement"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Another switcheroo.

But Larry may be on to something, Not that they know what a "bann" is, but
they must think of "ban on" as any kind of "public edict about."

JL
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> At 10:13 AM -0400 5/5/10, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> >A scroll on New England Cable News this morning referred to the
> >lifting of the "boil water ban."
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> >Joel
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> Maybe they were thinking of it as a "boil water bann".  It was a
> public announcement, after all.
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> LH
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