"yeah, yeah" again (another version)

[Amy West]

On 7/22/12 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> Date:    Sat, 21 Jul 2012 16:54:34 -0400
> From:    Jonathan Lighter<wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: "yeah, yeah" again (another version)
>
> Some might argue that three positives become a positive again:
>
> "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah,
> She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah..."
The "yeah, no" discussion brings to my mind the character Jim in "The
Vicar of Dibley" whose identifying speech characteristic is "yes, yes,
yes, no. . . ."

---Amy West

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