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- Original-From: Ken Wolman <mhwpa!ktw>
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 13:04:30 EST
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- From: ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM
- Subject: Re: An observation
- In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from "Blue eyes cryin' in the rain" at Dec 26,
- 92 11:07 am
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- > >lludd> webster 'melba toast'
- > >mel.ba toast \.mel-b*-\ n [Nellie Melba -1931 Austral soprano] : very thin
- > > bread toasted till crisp
- >
- > That Nellie must have been some kind of eater, to have *two* foods
- > named after her.
-
- I've seen pictures of ol' Nellie from when she was the queen of opera.
- I've also heard recordings. Believe me, you didn't support tones like
- that on a yogurt diet.:-)
-
- Ken
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