LBS

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Lipo-burdens" works for me. They're more precise on the nano-level.

JL

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Same thing with "oz."  I said "oz" until - as soon as an adult appeared - I
> asked what it meant.
>
> I can't say that the explanation made any sense, but from then on I
> pronounced "oz." as "ounce(s)."
>
> BTW, the Amber Alert voice sounds much like the NWS Alert voice.  If he's a
> robot, vocalizing a programmed script, "el - bee - ess" makes sense. But
> only if he's a robot.
>
> That woouldn't explain the diluted meaning of "tornado," however.
>
> JL
>
>   On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>> At 5/14/2011 10:45 AM, Neal Whitman wrote:
>> >In the 70s I read a Peanuts cartoon from probably the 60s, in which
>> >Linus or Lucy was telling Charlie Brown about learning in school
>> >that there were 16 ozzes in one lib.
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>> Its book buyer must have liked L. Frank Baum.  And one or two of Ruth
>> Plumly Thompson's.
>>
>> Joel
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