strawl

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun May 19 03:42:46 UTC 2013


On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

> << There's a landscape place near us that advertises "pinestrawl" for sale
> (not for sell, mind you), and I thought it was just a mistake last spring;
> . . . they have "pinestrawl" for sale (not sell) again this spring. >>


Reminds of the days when I thought that "cowlboys" lived in West Texas and
that milk came from "cowls"!


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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