cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs

[Jonathan Lighter]

I used to eat Cocoa Puffs all the time, because I wanted to get high like
the Bird, and the Puffs were 100% legal. Man, on Puffs I could *hear*
sounds and *see* colors!  Wild!!


JL

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 8/26/2012 04:25 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> >I may be all fucked up on this point, but I've long been under the
> >impression the the bird - a cuckoo - is "_coo-coo_ for Cocoa Puffs."
> >But,
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> >Youneverknow.
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> I know.  Doves say "coo-coo"; cuckoo birds say "cuckoo".
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> Joel
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