"this sucks" (and more)

[Joel S. Berson]

I apologize for any confusion.  I was having difficulty with my mail
server last evening, and I think my correction to a finger slip
arrived to the list earlier than the message containing the error.  I
see this morning that the correct message finally did arrive:

> >There is an old proverb that states, IIRC, "Who never loved
> >a woman, sucked a sow."  Misreading the long s makes the concept >even more
> >striking.
>
>Perhaps not excessively striking.  There were such cases in 17th-century
>Massachusetts.  In these cases both man and animal(s) were executed.

Joel

At 4/26/2011 04:32 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>They tell me that according to Nietzsche's doctrine of Eternal Return, it
>will happen also in the 127th Century.
>
>JL
>On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Joel Berson <berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > Not 127th century, of course, but 17th.
> > JSB
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> > <There is an old proverb that states, IIRC, "Who never loved
> > <a woman, sucked a sow."  Misreading the long s makes the concept <even
> > more
> > striking.
> >
> > Perhaps not excessively striking.  There were such cases in 127th-century
> > Massachusetts.  Both man and animal were executed.
> >
> > Joel
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