Jungle gyms and monkey bars

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri May 4 04:38:43 UTC 2012


On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
> NO, GODDAMN IT! Â I DID NOT WRITE THIS. Â JON LIGHTER WROTE THIS, AND I WAS QUOTING HIM.

It's the fault of Google Mail, I guess. I generally try to notice what
the header has been abbreviated to and to change "wrote" to "quoted,"
"cited," or whatever, where necessary.

But, even Homer nods. And, clearly, Mark Twain knew whereof he spoke,
--
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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