Facebook: "The _mother-load_ of recordings!"

[Jonathan Lighter]

> C-56 Lodestar

Gimmick spelling, subtle pun, or straw in the wind?

JL


On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 3:53 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

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> WG:  <<<IIRC, there was a WWII cargo plane called a "LoadStar," built by
> Lockheed>>>
> WB:  Aha! Beware the slippery slope! Not much heavy lifting involved with
> the C-56 Lodestar, designated a passenger transport. Although a few may
> have been adapted to cargo use or aerial topdressing.
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> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > > I don't distinguish "load", "lode", and even
> > > "lowed".  Except in writing.  And meaning.
> > >
> >
> > Exactly.
> >
> > Isn't it possible for any-motherfucking-body to be able to remember the
> > differences among "meet," "meat," and "mete," for example, without
> having a
> > brain that can do heavy lifting or without "thinking" oneself into some
> > asinine reanalysis?
> >
> > Jeezus!
> >
> > IIRC, there was a WWII cargo plane called a "LoadStar," built by
> Lockheed,
> > and which was, perhaps, the fountainhead of today's confusion, because,
> > even then, at the age of six or seven, I was the sole speaker of English
> > aware of the distinction between "load" and the "lode" in "lodestar,"
> > "lodestone," and "motherlode"? Might be.
> >
> > Youneverknow.
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