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Subject:Re: Marvel at my stupidity From:DHICKEY -at- ALIS -dot- COM Date:Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:25:22 -0400
Greetings!
> >It was just last year that I realized that the verse in the Christmas
> >song "Jingle Bells" wasn't "...one horse soap and sleigh..."
> And instead of "round yon virgin mother and child" (I swear this is
> true), I used to sing "Long John Silver, mother and child."
And then there's the story about the girl who though there was a bear in
heaven called Gladly who had a visual impairment.
When people would sing "Gladly, the cross I'd bear" she heard "Gladly, the
cross-eyed bear". (I heard this on a Billy Connelly record)
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Be seeing you,
Dave
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John David Hickey
Montreal, Quebec, Canada eh?
They say that the pen is mightier than the sword.
But if you miss a deadline, you'd better bring the sword.
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Don't confuse my opinion with my employer's.
Each exists in blissful ignorance of the other.
