escape goat

[Jonathan Lighter]

You mean...

Chacun a son goat.

JL

On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Nov 11, 2012, at 11:37 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> > At 11/5/2012 06:33 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> >> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Better to be the blamed, punished [e]scape goat than the
> >> blameless but execution-style executed (albeit with knife rather
> >> > than gun) sacrifice goat.  Unless one gets to enjoy 72 virgin does.
> >
> >> Dialect clash: "nannies" and not "does."
> >
> > If I were given the choice of 72 virgin nannies vs. 72 virgin does, I
> > know which I'd pick.
> >
> Chacun à son gout.  You know what they say, pretty is as pretty does.
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> LH
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