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- From: skip@rosalyn.stat.uga.edu (Skip Gundlach)
- Subject: Re: RIDDLES (involving no survivors,bears,birds or bus drivers)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.172834.15566@rigel.econ.uga.edu>
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- Organization: UGA Statistics Department
- References: <1992Dec22.103641.16913@reed.edu> <1992Dec23.001208.10089@oakhill.sps.mot.com> <1992Dec31.132325.1277@mwk.uucp>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 17:28:34 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.132325.1277@mwk.uucp> richardsro@mwk.uucp writes:
- >bradj@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Brad R. Johnson) writes:
- >>
- >> As far as I know, a preposition is not something one can legally end a
- >> sentence with. [Other stuff which _was_ important to his post deleted...]
- >
- > Someone (what memory?) once said, when told about the above "rule", something
- >like:
- >
- >- That is a rule up with which we can not put.
- >
- Winston Churchill, in Parliament, when confronted with back bench
- arguing about the rules of grammar being abused by speakers...
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- >>
- >> Brad
- >--
- >Bobby Richards
- >richardsro@mwk.uucp (Preferred)
- >uhnix1!mwk!richardsro (Alternate)
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