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Re: Sensible passives (was: confession: roots)

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Thursday, May 10, 2001, 20:23
On Thu, 10 May 2001, John Cowan wrote:

> Raymond Brown wrote: > > > who......was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary > > This reads almost like horse-breeding records, which are of > the form "Foobiscuit by Baratariat out of Bazwozzle", meaning > that Baratariat is the sire, Bazwozzle the dam.
LOL! Seabiscuit...Secretariat...and does Bazwozzle refer to an actual horse, or not? :-p YHL

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John Cowan <jcowan@...>