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[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> "Poor poor pitiful me" (actually written by Warren Zevon in the 1970s):
>
> Well I met a man out in Hollywood
> Now I ain't naming names
> Well he really worked me over good
> Just like Jesse James
> Yes he really worked me over good
> He was a credit to his gender
> Put me through some changes, Lord
> Sort of like a Waring blender
>

As it happens, after I'd left the dark side and had come to the light, this
became one of my favorite songs.

Little-known factoid: the Waring blender was invented by Fred Waring, of
"and his Pennsylvanians" fame.

Curse these Renaissance men!

-- 
-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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