Oh, well

[Mark Mandel]

Will have bin there, will have dun that.

Mark A. MandellednaM .A kraM

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

> Wassamatta, you guys never heard of time travel?
>
> LH
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> On Mar 12, 2012, at 10:23 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > Even living backwards would only get them to 1926.
> >
> > JL
> > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> "A person born in the US at the turn of the 20th century could expect
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