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zeppo!mmc    Sep 29 16:19:00 1982

The lama/llama/lllama idea was originally recorded by Ogden Nash,
in a verse which, as near as I can recall, goes,

	A one-l lama, he's a priest;
	A two-l llama, he's a beast.
	But I'll bet you a silk pajama
	That you can't find a three-l lllama.


In subsequent editions of the verse, Nash appended a footnote
stating that a reader had suggested that a three-l lllama was
a rather substantial conflagration.