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Subject:Re: Marvel at my stupidity From:Patty Ewy <pewy -at- GREATPLAINS -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:22:46 -0500
Let's not forget that 50's classic about the "secret Asian man."
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From: Suzie Elliott [mailto:suziee -at- MCCALLPATTERN -dot- COM]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 10:08 AM
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Subject: Re: Marvel at my stupidity
>It was just last year that I realized that the verse in the Christmas
>song "Jingle Bells" wasn't "...one horse soap and sleigh..."
As a ten-year-old, I thought Curly was singing about a surrey with
"highsy-class curtains you can roll right down." Nope, isenglass
curtains! Whatever the heck *they* are.
And instead of "round yon virgin mother and child" (I swear this is
true), I used to sing "Long John Silver, mother and child."
