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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!RA.MSSTATE.EDU!MAYNOR
  3. Message-ID: <9212261540.AA17412@Ra.MsState.Edu>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
  5. Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 09:40:37 CST
  6. Sender:       English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
  7. From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
  8. Subject:      Re: An observation
  9. Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
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  12. >   Luck has nothing to do with it. It's simply a fact that Twelfth Night
  13. > is the proper time for the tree to come down.
  14.  
  15. Proper?  <sigh>  It's difficult convincing tree prescriptivists of the
  16. narrow-mindedness of their views.
  17.  
  18. >   Do you have the tradition of "Christmas tree plunder parties"?
  19.  
  20. Not that I know of.  Balling parties are fairly common around here but
  21. not plunder parties.
  22.    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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