[Ads-l] Nursery rhyme . . .

[Wilson Gray]

Y'all crazy. Ain' no black sheep name-a no Bah-Bah!

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 9:26 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> But his litter mate, Red, became a famous baseball announcer.
>
> JL
>
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 9:23 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > > On May 30, 2017, at 8:52 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Of course Charlie is right, but in my infancy I too assumed that "Baa
> > Baa"
> > > was the sheep's name.
> > >
> > > Makes perfect sense.
> >
> > And as the black sheep of the family, he went on to greater infamy as
> > Sweeney Todd, the Demon Baa Baa of Fleet Street.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 6:32 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> According to my sense of Geico ads, its on purpose.
> > >>
> > >> DanG
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 6:28 PM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu>
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> A Geico insurance commercial currently running on TV is based on the
> > >>> nursery rhyme "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep."
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> The spokesman in the commercial assumes that the sheep is named "Baa
> > >>> Baa."  According to my sense of the grammar of the rhyme, that's just
> > >> wrong!
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Charlie
> > >>>
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