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- From: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
- Subject: Re: "Satanic Ritual Abuse" in the media
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.214756.10278@rosevax.rosemount.com>
- Sender: news@rosevax.rosemount.com (USENET News administrator)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: aquarius
- Reply-To: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
- Organization: Rosemount, Inc.
- References: <C0KCMz.Koo@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 21:47:56 GMT
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- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
- : cburian@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher J Burian) writes:
- :
- : >kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
- : >
- : >>psychotherapists claim that tens or even hundreds of thousands of
- : > /\
- : > Insert space here...
- :
- : Why? the OED2 and Webster's Ninth New Collegiate spell it as I do.
- :
-
- By inserting a space it becomes two words: an adjective modifying the
- following noun.
-
- "It's a joke, son!"
-
- --Foghorn Leghorn
-
- I've been told that that line in particular (and the Foghorn character
- in general) was borrowed from a radio character named Senator
- Claghorn. But, I've never heard the radion show in question, and I'm a
- WB cartoon fan, so I'll use the above attribution.
-
- --
- Grant Edwards |Yow! It's a hole all the way
- Rosemount Inc. |to downtown Burbank!
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- grante@aquarius.rosemount.com |
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