Team names (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Maybe the same jar.

Therefore, unquestionably the same jar.

Literary interpretations are no longer "good" or "bad," they're just...aw,
you know.

JL

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:

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> I was hoping it was the lyrics to "Rocky Top" (Univ of Tennessee fight
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> "Corn won't grow at all on Rocky Top,
> Dirt's too rocky by far.
> That's why all the folks on Rocky Top,
> get their corn from a jar."
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> > Check out Wallace Stevens' poem, "Anecdote of the Jar."
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> > Fred Shapiro
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> > > In reference to the Baltimore Ravens--named for Poe's poem--Dennis
> > > Baron posted these possible "literary" names on his Facebook page:
> > > "St. Louis Prufrocks? The Camden Leaves? Patterson Wheelbarrows?
> > > Tennessee Jars? The Amherst Slants of Light?"
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> > Can someone explain the Tennessee reference?  I don't get it . . .
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