"mnemonic possession"

[Dan Goncharoff]

Yes, spaghetti and tomato sauce is early Asian-American fusion cuisine.

DanG


On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 10/24/2013 02:01 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> >On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu
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> > > Variant of the last one (on taxonomic classifications):
> > >
> > > King Philip courted Ophelia for great sex.
> > >
> > > I like the spaghetti version, though; you can't get really good
> spaghetti
> > > in Spain.
> > >
> >
> >Christopher Columbus didn't bring any? I thought he was the reason they
> got
> >the tomato, for the sauce!
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> Didn't spaghetti come to Italy from China?  Khan Polo catered one
> fabulously generous spaghettifest.
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> (The title is honorary, awarded to him by Kublai Khan.)
>
> Joel
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