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From: ranjit@grad1.cis.upenn.edu (Ranjit Bhatnagar)
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Subject: Re: Good for a chuckle
Keywords: narrator song cute
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Date: 11 Oct 89 19:45:39 GMT
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The story "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut" is from a fun book called
_Anguish Languish_, by Howard L. Chace. (Prentice-Hall, 1956.)
It also contains nursery rhymes like "Marry Hatter Ladle Limb."

There's a similar book by Luis d'Antin Van Rooten called _Mots
d'Heures: gousses, rames_ which encodes familiar English rhymes
in French.  (Try saying "Mots d'heures gousses rames" fast!)

The Exploratorium is not in Golden Gate Park!  It's on the
edge of the Presidio.

If you had an online dictionary which gave not only the spelling
but the rough pronounciation of words, then, besides helping
to make the narrator device more accurate, you could use it to
generate things like these automatically by looking for 
sequences of words whose pronounciation approximately matches
the input sequence.  (In fact, I think something like this was
posted on one of the sources groups a year ago or so, called
'autopun' or something.)

	- ranjit




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