The joke's on you, Bob.

[Catherine Rudin]

Great story -- made my day :-)

>>> Marianne Mithun  08/24/13 12:16 PM >>>
Love it Bob!

Marianne

--On Saturday, August 24, 2013 5:10 PM +0000 "Rankin, Robert L." 
 wrote:

>
>
> Just a footnote to the Saganash saga.  A year or so ago I had an
> appointment in Topeka and drove in through the north (seedy) side of
> town.  I passed a place called the Sasnak Tavern and thought maybe the
> name was based on the Indian name for ‘British’ that we have just
> recently been discussing here (even though it was missing a bunch of
> phonemes).
>
>
>
> I managed to convince myself of this amazing discovery to the point
that
> I even thought about stopping off for a beer to ask about the history
of
> the bar’s name.  Then, driving away and feeling very proud of my
> intellectual prowess in recognizing such an obscure historical fact, I
> happened to glance in the rear view mirror and saw the mirror image of
> the name.
>
>
>
> Oh shit.
>
>
>
> Bob

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