[Peace-discuss] Inquiring minds want to know ...

C. G. Estabrook galliher at illinois.edu
Sat Jul 10 16:23:36 CDT 2010


And the rhyme instances the proper pronunciation of "err" - so often today 
mispronounced as "air."  Air is what Michael Jordan did - and when he did he 
rarely erred...


On 7/10/10 4:11 PM, Ron Szoke wrote:
> They couldn't find a Tiger to skin.
>
> "Would you like to sin
> With Eleanor Glynn
> On a tiger skin?
>
> Or would you prefer
> To err with her
> On some other fur?"
>
> -- a once-popular ditty when Glynn's racy novel _Three Weeks_ (1907)
> was the scandal du jour.
>
> No comment on the humps.  None.
>
> -- Ron
>


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