LL-L "Lexicon" 2009.11.20 (02) [EN]

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From: TomÃ¡s Ã“ CÃ¡rthaigh <tomasocarthaigh at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2009.11.20 (01) [EN]

A fantastic tale, and echoes so well the tale of the Garden of Eden where
Adam and Eve went round naming all the plants God had growing there...

It reminds me of a joke video doing the rounds on YouTube... Eve finds
flower, gives it a name, asks Adam to name the tree, which he calls a "yoke"
as is everything else to him. She finds this irritating as women do, and he
finds her need to name everything irritating as every woman does.

She then gives correct names to all the things he called "yokes", finally
placing a label on him. The label states "Bollix"... so along with being the
first man, Adam is the first man to be called a bollix by a woman!

- TomÃ¡s

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