Millionaire Matchmaker

[Jonathan Lighter]

No way did the shikse-looking guy look like a girl. He was big and tall with
a shaved head.

But there I go again thinking in stereotypes.

Similarly, I thought his unmistakable use of "peoples" was notable because
of his
millionaire Caucasianality.

JL

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:38 AM, Eric Nielsen <ericbarnak at gmail.com> wrote:

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> ...like those Ptolemaic epicycles.
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> Eric
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> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Garson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com
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> > Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > >>BONUS SOPHISTICATION INDICATOR:
> > >>
> > >>The show featured a commercial for something expensive whose score
> > included
> > >>a guy crooning, "You got me circling like the moon around the sun!"
> >
> > Laurence Horn:
> > > Maybe meaning 'not circling at all', like "ad kalendas Graecas" or
> > > "till the twelfth of Never"?  Naaaah.
> >
> > Below is a question from the textbook "Physics, classical and modern":
> > The magnitude of the force on the moon due to the sun is more than
> > twice the magnitude of the force on the moon due to the earth. Would
> > it be more accurate to say that the moon orbits the sun rather than
> > the moon orbits the earth?
> >
> >
> >
> http://books.google.com/books?id=gt3iAAAAMAAJ&q=%22moon+orbits%22#search_anchor
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> > I do not know if astronomical nomenclature dictates an answer. With
> > multiple objects the simple notion of "orbit" breaks down from my
> > non-astronomer layperson perspective.
> >
> > "You got me circling like the moon around the sun!"
> >
> > There is a possible generous interpretation: You have me so
> > dumbfounded that I am circling around you with a wobbling orbit as if
> > I have a large companion object.
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