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<br>Topics of the day:
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<br>  1. regional distribution? (12)
<br>  2. RE>regional distribution?
<br>  3. hello, hello
<br>  4. RE>Re: Neologisms
<br>  5. folding laundry
<br>  6. Fred Cassidy
<br>  7. hello, hello, and 99 bottles
<br>  8. pundent
<br>  9. Upstate New York
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<br>Date:    Sun, 3 May 1998 23:26:34 -0700
<br>From:    Kim & Rima McKinzey <rkm[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SLIP.NET>
<br>Subject: regional distribution?
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<br>There was a Bizarro cartoon in the paper on Saturday (5/2) showing a family
<br>happily singing in a car.  The caption was "The lexicon family singers on a
<br>road trip."  They were singing:
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<br>"...One less than 100 glass, narrow-necked containers of alcoholic
<br>beverages brewed from barley & hops on the room-dividing structure - one
<br>less than 100 glass, narrow-necked containers of alcohholic beverages
<br>brewed from barley & hops.  Take one down, pass it around...."
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<br>My question, though, is how many of you sang (sing?) that with "take one
<br>down, pass it around..." and how many with "If one of those bottles should
<br>happen to fall, (number) bottles of beer on the wall"?
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<br>I learned the second choice - in NYC.
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<br>Rima
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<br>(Of course, then there was the explanation of recursive music someone gave
<br>me.  The example was "100 bottles of beer on the wall, 100 bottles of beer.
<br>Take one down, put it back up, 100 bottles of beer on the wall."
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