"weather" in Hawaiian?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Two Rons. No coincidence. The secret history is yet to be written.

JL

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Sep 7, 2011, at 9:01 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > Larry's right. It was "freedom."
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> > What made it even more ridiculous, though, was that Ron Swoboda had
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> > played for the Mets.
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> > JL
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> That just proved that *Polish* had a word for 'freedom'.  And they put
> Swoboda out in right field.  Coincidence?  You decide.
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> LH
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> > 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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