SOTA?: "=?windows-1252?Q?=85_?=the animals they _slayed_."

[Laurence Horn]

On Nov 30, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:

> Well, if they were reindeer, they were probably sleighed.
>
> LH


Oops, sorry--is my nose red!  I should have read the other postings (by WB and DG) first.  I obviously mis-slayed my netiquette.

LH

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> On Nov 30, 2012, at 6:50 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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>> You sley me.
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>> JL
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>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> G. Wayne Clough
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>>> "Smithsonian," December 2012, p.10c
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>>> Shouldn't that be _slaid_? Where's spellcheck, when you need it? <har!
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