[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Easter Bunny"

[Jonathan Lighter]

> The "a couple _of_ ..." of my lost youth has died out, apparently.

Only apparently, Wilson, since that's the only way I'd ever say it.

JL

On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Bonnie Taylor-Blake <
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> > a couple different historical databases
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> The "a couple _of_ ..." of my lost youth has died out, apparently. I've
> considered using the similarly-antiquated, jocular "a couple of three
> [whatevers]," but that probably wouldn't be interpretable, anymore.
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