Garden Path

Herb Stahlke hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM
Tue Feb 19 04:39:39 UTC 2013


Or maybe they're for the indigestion resulting from the breakfast.  Blest
be the tie that binds.

Herb


On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Feb 18, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Geoffrey Steven Nathan wrote:
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> > I get emails from BedandBreakfast.com, and they had one today that got
> my parser all hot and bothered:
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> > Inns with Underground Railroad Ties
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> > Do you think they use them to construct the beds? Make the breakfasts?
> >
> > Geoff
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> Or do they just lend them out to male lodgers to satisfy the dress code
> for the formal Underground Railroad commemorative dinners?
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> LH
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