Date:  Sun, 21 Jan 1996 21:56:53 EST

From:  Larry Horn <LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU>

Subject: Roll over, sparrow grass...



...and give Elephant & Castle (not to mention the 4-stair furnace) the news.

Tired of trotting out those same tired examples of loss of transparency/folk

etymology/reanalysis? Try this one on for size:



  "Meanwhile, Richard Parker Bowles, brother of Camilla's ex-husband,

 Andrew, said that from the beginning Camilla approved of Charles'

 marrying Diana while she remained his power mower."

                Richmond Times-Dispatch, quoted in

                 New Yorker, 1.22/95, p. 83

Let me be your power mower/

Till your push mower comes home?



OK, it's too nonce to qualify for WOTY. But maybe it'll catch on.



Larry