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From: jim@randvax.UUCP (Jim Gillogly)
Newsgroups: net.comics,net.nlang
Subject: Re: nonsense line
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Date: Sun, 2-Mar-86 00:36:37 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  2 00:36:37 1986
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In article <831@ellie.UUCP> colonel@ellie.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
>> Major Hoople, was created by Gene Ahern in 1921 with the _Squirrel Cage_
>> as the top.  NOV SHMOZ KA POP, a nonsense line that was widely parroted,
>
>What do you mean, "nonsense line"?  I'll bet somebody on the Net can
>identify both the language and the meaning.
>
>A tougher one is "NOTARY SOJAC," from _Smokey Stover._ I'll bet nobody
>figures that one out!

NOTARY SOJAC anagrams to "JAY'S CARTOON".  I wonder who wrote Smokey Stover.
(It also anagrams to "A COSY TROJAN" and "JARS A TYCOON", but those aren't
very compelling.)
-- 
	Jim Gillogly
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