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|    Ron Moses to Bil    |
|    Re: "Join the march and eat my starch"    |
|    15 Aug 16 13:08:36    |
      From: ronmoses@gmail.com              On Sunday, August 14, 2016 at 11:09:50 PM UTC-4, Bil wrote:       >       > Wikipedia traces the story of the Old Woman, the Woodcutter, and the Sparrow       (that ate the starch) to a Japanese story "Shita-kiri Suzume" [The tongue-cut       sparrow].       >       > See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shita-kiri_Suzume              Well shit, I was convinced you'd made that whole thing up! It was really quite       impressive in that context; I'd chalked it up as one of the more entertaining       Bil posts. Now...I don't know, I'm almost disappointed. :)              ron              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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