[Ads-l] Dim sum stress
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Dec 31 05:23:15 UTC 2014
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 11:58 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:
> stress questions in elementary school
>
"*Stress* questions"?! "In *elementary* school"?! Wow! That's impressive!
Oh, wait. When I was in grade school, it was called "accent."
Never mind.
[Colgate Tooth Powder! With the *accent* - on "*powder*!]
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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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