Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site convexs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!drutx!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!convexs!ayers From: ayers@convexs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Is English decaying rapidly eno Message-ID: <7700012@convexs> Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 16:35:00 EST Article-I.D.: convexs.7700012 Posted: Mon Dec 9 16:35:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 12-Dec-85 04:46:57 EST References: <1512@decwrl.UUCP> Lines: 17 Nf-ID: #R:decwrl.UUCP:1512:convexs:7700012:000:371 Nf-From: convexs.UUCP!ayers Dec 9 15:35:00 1985 >> >I happily admit that we can't all be Humpty Dumpty and have words >> >mean whatever we want them to... >> >> _I_ can... >> >> W.C. Fields > >Yes, I believe the problem is simply that you have to pay them enough. > >(Hmm, didn't Fields play Humpty Dumpty...and Cary Grant play the Mock Turtle >in the same movie?) Yes to Fields; don't remember CG...