Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 19:01:10 -0800

From: "Alan S. Kaye" AKAYE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CCVAX.FULLERTON.EDU

Subject: Re: Strange Advertisement



It sounds great to my ears (and is good marketing!) precisely because

it uses the idiomatic "passing" ( = die) and a lifetime = someone who

has lived a long, productive, four score and ten. It is like the "loved

one" -- see the movie with Jonathan Winters.

--Alan Kaye--

linguistics, cal. state univ., Fullerton