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Re: OT elephants, Wales (was NATLANG: Chinese parts of speech (or lack thereof)

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Thursday, August 12, 2004, 16:11
Philippe Caquant scripsit:

> I guess the first one has a sexual connotation, > referring to Tarzan's balls, but I cannot make > anything out of the secund one. "Peanut butter" to me > refers to the USA, to Jimmy Carter or to Charlie > Brown.
The only thing I can think of is that kids traditionally feed peanuts to circus elephants, or used to. -- John Cowan www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com jcowan@reutershealth.com SAXParserFactory [is] a hideous, evil monstrosity of a class that should be hung, shot, beheaded, drawn and quartered, burned at the stake, buried in unconsecrated ground, dug up, cremated, and the ashes tossed in the Tiber while the complete cast of Wicked sings "Ding dong, the witch is dead." --Elliotte Rusty Harold on xml-dev

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