[Ads-l] Antedating of G-string

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 7:26 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Not to belabor it, but your post (yes, I know it was a typo, whence the
> emoticon) was
>
> > Do you remember Guy Mitchell's 1950 hit, "The Roving Kid"?
>
> to which my response was as above.
>

I didn't notice the typo till now, and even then, only after much studying
over your comment that a typo existed somewhere, whether in your comment or
in mine. I can now state, unequivocally, without fear of contradiction,
that, now,

I get it!

And it's a real thigh-slapper!


-- 
-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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