The Purloined Shopping List

Jeff Wilson · 22 Nov 2011, 05:35 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:35:49 -0600
Subject: (urth) The Purloined Shopping List
In-Reply-To: <1321938020.55352.YahooMailClassic at web161804.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
References: <1321938020.55352.YahooMailClassic at web161804.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <4ECB34B5.1060908 at clueland.com>

On 11/21/2011 11:00 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> Yet the weirdest accusation was leveled at me today when Wolfe's
> grocery list came up today: that I would turn potatoes into a left
> handed socket wrenches.  But Gene DID write me a very simple three
> word sentence that is a noun, a linking verb, and a predicate
> nominative, and I, contrary to that accusation, was the only person
> in the universe to take it at face value

Aren't you overlooking a word?


IIRC, it said, "No, Green is URTH!"


or did it say, "No Green is URTH!"


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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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