Heard on Springer: "in the _first_ beginning..."

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/25/2011 03:58 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>IAC, the story immediately struck me as probably
>apocryphal, since I hadn't heard before - or since, for that matter -
>that typos were a major problem WRT printing the Bible.

I believe there is in fact a Bible with a "big inning" (faux pas) --
one that leaves out a "not" from one of the Ten Commandments.  "Thou
shalt commit adultery"?  Must be that -- it's too often obeyed.

>BTW, doesn't "big inning" have some special meaning in a baseballic
>context? (I prefer "America's game" to the "national pastime.") Or is
>"inning" a faux ami?

Therefore there could be a second big inning.

Joel

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