Another non-metaphor

[Herb Stahlke]

I grew up with sand, but my kids used "eye seeds."  Must have learned it in
school, but that could have been SE suburban Atlanta or Muncie.  It's the
only name for it that I remember my oldest using, so that suggests Atlanta.


On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Mar 21, 2014, at 5:28 AM, W Brewer wrote:
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> > DG: << the stuff I would call 'sand'>>
> > WB's mommy used to call it <sleep>. WB would guess <sand> comes from the
> > Sand Man, whom the Chordettes ask to get a dream from. <<... with a
> voice
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> a lonely heart
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> > like Pagliacci, and lots of hair like Liberace.>>
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> That's *Mister* Sandman to you!
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> LH, who also grew up with "sleep" rather than "sand" in his eyes
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