Dante, the one-hit wonder

[Jonathan Lighter]

Cf. today's story of an opinion survey to rank America's "10 Hottest
Politicians!"

("Hot" went undefined.)

The winner: Michelle Obama.

So the First Lady is now widely considered to be a "politician."


JL

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Eric Nielsen <ericbarnak at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:38 AM, George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu
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> > Did I mention that no Greek or Latin poet could make the cut?
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> > I post this just to show you folks that Linguistics isn;t the only field
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> > study beset by ninnies.
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> > No Ovid, Vergil, Catullus, or Horace?
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> > Sappho should be on every top ten list.
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>    Phainetai moi....
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>    Eric
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