Inquiring minds want to know...

[Jonathan Lighter]

Try "screw" or the equivalent.

See, strictly speaking vegetables don't have...so you can't...but it's
metaphorical.

Also, do "spherical" vegetables really work best?

JL

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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> > Amy Poehler's associate on "Parks and Recreation"
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> Now, *that's* something that I *didn't* know.
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> On the Daily Show, she mentioned that, because her father is black,
> she had once considered _Jones_ to be some kind of slave name. But,
> she has now found out that it is, in fact, a Welsh name.
>
> Yes, that's right. It is a Welsh name.
>
> Wait, what?
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