"weather" in Hawaiian?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Larry's right. It was "freedom."

What made it even more ridiculous, though, was that Ron Swoboda had already
played for the Mets.

JL


On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> 9/6/2011 08:34 PM, Chris Waigl wrote:
> >Now in terms of people affected, I'll well believe that Alaska
> >ranges lower on the "unaffected by destructive weather" scale,
> >simply by virtue of the entire state having fewer inhabitants than
> >Austin, TX, half of which concentrated around Anchorage.
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> I believe this was actually pointed out by the ABC reporter.  Larry?
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> Joel
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